Machine Learning Architecture

In the previous chapter, you learned about ingesting and processing big data and getting insights to understand your business. In the traditional way of running a business, the organization’s decision maker looks at past data and uses their experience to plot the future course of the company’s direction. It’s not just about setting up the business vision but also improving the end user experience by predicting and fulfilling their needs or automating day-to-day decision-making activities such as loan approval.

However, with the sheer amount of data available now, it’s become difficult for the human brain to process all data and predict the future. That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) come in. AI is the broader concept of machines carrying out tasks in smart ways like Siri and Alexa to understand your questions and give answers, and ML is a specific subset of AI that involves teaching...