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Building a Machine Learning Application
Building ML applications is an iterative process that involves a sequence of steps. To build an ML application, follow these general steps:
Frame the core ML problem(s) in terms of what is observed and what answer you want the model to predict.
Collect, clean, and prepare data to make it suitable for consumption by ML model training algorithms. Visualize and analyze the data to run sanity checks to validate the quality of the data and to understand the data.
Often, the raw data (input variables) and answer (target) are not represented in a way that can be used to train a highly predictive model. Therefore, you typically should attempt to construct more predictive input representations or features from the raw variables.
Feed the resulting features to the learning algorithm to build models and evaluate the quality of the models on data that was held out from model building.
Use the model to generate predictions of the target answer for new data instances.
