Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the Author
About the cover illustration
1. Machine learning for business
Chapter 1. How machine learning applies to your business
1.1. Why are our business systems so terrible?
1.2. Why is automation important now?
1.2.1. What is productivity?
1.2.2. How will machine learning improve productivity?
1.3. How do machines make decisions?
1.3.1. People: Rules-based or not?
1.3.2. Can you trust a pattern-based answer?
1.3.3. How can machine learning improve your business systems?
1.4. Can a machine help Karen make decisions?
1.4.1. Target variables
1.4.2. Features
1.5. How does a machine learn?
1.6. Getting approval in your company to use machine learning to make decisions
1.7. The tools
1.7.1. What are AWS and SageMaker, and how can they help you?
1.7.2. What is a Jupyter notebook?
1.9. The time to act is now
(try again in a couple of minutes)