Abdullahi Yusuf Rufai
4 min readAug 21, 2023

A Comprehensive Guide To Supervised Machine Learning.

Introduction:

Before we embark on this comprehensive guide to supervised machine learning, i advice you to first read Machine Learning: A Simple Introduction. The concepts and insights you gained from reading that will serve as a solid stepping stone as we go deeper into supervised machine learning.

If you’ve have read Machine Learning: A Simple Introduction, you’ve already become familiar with the basic principles of machine learning, including the different between supervised and unsupervised and reinforcement machine learning. This prior knowledge will undoubtedly help as we dive into supervised machine learning in this guide.

In either case, whether you’re building upon your existing knowledge of Ml or just beginning your exploration, this guide is written to help your understanding of supervised machine learning.

Supervise machine Learning:

Supervised machine learning is a type of machine learning where the algorithm is trained on a set of labeled data. This means that each data point in the training set has a known output value. The machine learning algorithm learns to map the input data to the output data by finding patterns or the correlation in the training set.

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In supervised learning, the training data provided to the machines work as the supervisor that teaches the machines to predict the output correctly. It applies the same concept as a student learns in the supervision of the teacher.

Why Is Supervised Learning Important?

In regression and classification problems, supervised learning is perfect, such as identifying to which group a news story refers to or forecasting the sales volume for a defined date in the future.

To improve the performance of the algorithm, expertise use the algorithm of supervised machine learning to solve real-word computation.

Data is converted into reality with the help of supervised learning algorithms. It also helps companies to use data for their target attribute to recognize and avoid undesirable results while improving the desired outcome.

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Supervised learning is one of the most critical engines that stimulates AI systems to make business decisions better and timely than humans. It is used by companies across industries to address issues like:

  • Customer churn decrease
  • Personalizing reviews for goods
  • Human resource distribution
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Supply and demand analysis
  • To identify fraud
  • Predicting repair of equipment

How Supervised Learning Works:

In supervised learning, models are trained using labelled dataset, where the model learns about each type of data. Once the training process is completed, the model is tested on the basis of test data (a some division of the training set), and then it predicts the output.

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Advantages of Supervised learning:

  • supervised learning, helps model to predict the output on the basis of prior experiences.
  • In supervised learning, we can have an exact idea about the classes of objects.
  • Helps to optimize performance criteria with the help of experience.
  • It performs classification and regression tasks.
  • It allows estimating or mapping the result to a new sample.

Disadvantages of supervised learning:

  • Supervised learning models are not suitable for handling the complex tasks.
  • If the test data is different from the training dataset supervised learning is not applicable.
  • Training required lots of computation times.
  • Enough knowledge about the classes of object is needed to use supervised learning.

Application and use case of supervised machine learning:

  1. speech recognition: This is application where you express your voice to the algorithm and it will be able to spot you. Digital assistants like Google Assistant and Siri are used case example.
  2. Spam Detection: This program is used to block unreal or machine-based messages and e-mails. G-Mail has an algorithm that learns various keywords that may be incorrect.
  3. Object-Recognition For Vision: When you need to define something, this sort of software is being used. You have a large dataset that you use to teach your algorithm and a new instance can be recognized using this.

Conclusion:

i will conclude by saying supervised machine learning is a powerful tool that can be used to solve a wide variety of problems. It is used in a wide range of industries, and its applications are constantly expanding. As the technology continues to improve, supervised machine learning will become even more powerful and versatile.

Abdullahi Yusuf Rufai

A tech enthusiasm having interest in Embedded systems, ML, AI, IOT, data science, software devt, leadership, researching and Technical and research writing