A Brief Introduction to Supervised Learning

Aidan Wilson
Towards Data Science
5 min readSep 29, 2019

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Supervised learning is the most common subbranch of machine learning today. Typically, new machine learning practitioners will begin their journey with supervised learning algorithms. Therefore, the first of this three post series will be about supervised learning.

Supervised machine learning algorithms are designed to learn by example. The name “supervised” learning originates from the idea that training this type of algorithm is like having a teacher supervise the whole process.

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