Machine learning applications
Given the rapidly growing use of machine learning in diverse areas of human endeavor, any attempt to list typical applications in the different industries where some form of machine learning is in use must necessarily be incomplete. Nevertheless, in this section, we list a broad set of machine learning applications by domain and the type of learning employed:
|
Domain/Industry |
Applications |
Machine Learning Type |
|---|---|---|
|
Financial |
Credit risk scoring, fraud detection, and anti-money laundering |
Supervised, unsupervised, graph models, time series, and stream learning |
|
Web |
Online campaigns, health monitoring, and ad targeting |
Supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised |
|
Healthcare |
Evidence-based medicine, epidemiological surveillance, drug events prediction, and claim fraud detection |
Supervised, unsupervised, graph models, time series, and stream learning |
|
Internet of things (IoT) |
Cyber security, smart roads, and sensor health monitoring |
Supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and stream learning |
|
Environment |
Weather forecasting, pollution modeling, and water quality measurement |
Time series, supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and stream learning |
|
Retail |
Inventory, customer management and recommendations, layout, and forecasting |
Time series, supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and stream learning |
Applications of machine learning
