Intro to machine learning algorithms for IT professionals

Mike Matchett Published Articles June 1, 2015 | 0

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.

Our data center machines, due to all the information we feed them, are getting smarter. How can you use machine learning to your advantage?

Machine learning is a key part of how big data brings operational intelligence into our organizations. But while machine learning algorithms are fascinating, the science gets complex very quickly. We can’t all be data scientists, but IT professionals need to learn about how our machines are learning.

We are increasingly seeing practical and achievable goals for machine learning, such as finding usable patterns in our data and then making predictions. Often, these predictive models are used in operational processes to optimize an ongoing decision-making process, but they can also provide key insight and information to inform strategic decisions.

The basic premise of machine learning is to train an algorithm to predict an output value within some probabilistic bounds when it is given specific input data. Keep in mind that machine learning techniques today are inductive, not deductive — it leads to probabilistic correlations, not definitive conclusions.

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Intro to machine learning algorithms for IT professionals