Great very informative and easy talk - thank you very much! I especially liked the clear definition of Machine Learning and comparison with Statistics and Data Mining. I am teaching Machine Learning now at Boston University and plan to use some of your examples and explanations.
This is a very good introduction. I now have a better handle on this area although there will be lots of discover. I like how experience is imparted in the presentation. Many thanks for publishing this online.
Similar to independent variables i.e., if I have a simple set of data, (x1, y1), (x2,y2),...,(xn,yn) and I want to find a function f such that f(xk) = yk then you can really think of the features as independent variables, but they dislike using the term especially in classification problems.
