Applications of daily needs
Food
- data: twitter data(words + location)
- skill: tell food poisoning likeliness of restaurant properly
Clothing
- data: sales figures + client surveys
- skill: give good fashion recommendations to clients
Housing
- data: characteristics of building and their energy load
- skill: predict energy load of other buildings
Transportation
- data: some traffic sign images and meanings
- skill: recognize traffic signs accurately
detailed applications
Education
- data: students’ records on quizzes on a math tutoring system
- skill: predict wether a student can give a correct answer to another quiz
A possible ML solution
answer correctly ≈ [recent strength of student > <script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-16">></script> difficulty of question]
- give ML 9 million records from 3000 students
- ML determines strength and difficulty automatically
Entertainment: Recommender System
- data: how many users have rated some movies
- skill: how a user would rate an unrated movie
A possible ML solution
- pattern: rating <- viewer/movie factors
- learning:
knowing rate -> learned factors -> unknown rating prediction