What is ML: A motivating Example

Overview

Teaching: 30 min
Exercises: 15 min

Questions

• How can Machine Learning be useful?

Objectives

• Learn how ML can be useful and some limitation

Motivating Example

This is going to be homework. Read this paper, Frasier, K. E., Roch, M. A., Soldevilla, M. S., Wiggins, S. M., Garrison, L. P., & Hildebrand, J. A. (2017). Automated classification of dolphin echolocation click types from the Gulf of Mexico. PLOS Computational Biology, 13(12), e1005823. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005823

, and identify the task(s), experience(s) and performance metric(s).

Key Points

• Machine Learning can be useful, but you need to be careful