Machine learning demystified

Ask a Data Scientist: What's Machine Learning? A Codecademy student who co-founded a company. Newsletter #44 February 23, 2018 Essential news, trends, and stories from Codecademy and the world of code. Our team weighs in on the trend According to our watches, it's been 18 hours since the last machine learning news article surfaced on Google News. Do a quick search of the buzzword, and you'll find a slew of Matrix-inspired green numerals running over a filtered image of a computer or brain. But all that neon green and talk of "neural nets" doesn't explain what machine learning is, or—more importantly—how and why to build a robot. That's why we asked our data scientist to demystify the phrase "machine learning." Read on as we explore: What "machine learning" really is & popular misconceptions Why it's trending now Who should learn it and where to start READ & THEN CODE In Other News A little code goes a long way It's all marketing speak until one of your learners co-founds a company. Read about how Jackson went from no-code to starting a web design agency in less than a year. Get the insights you need We live in a data-driven world, but numbers & databases aren't all you need. Learn SQL and turn that data dump into conclusions that prove a point. Connect with Us Codecademy 49 W 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 Unsubscribe from these alerts.