Machine learning overview – classification versus regression

In this recipe we will examine how regression can be viewed as being very similar to classification. This is done by reconsidering the categorical labels of regression as real numbers. In this section we will also look at at several aspects of machine learning from a very broad perspective including the purpose of scikit-learn. scikit-learn allows us to find models that work well incredibly quickly. We do not have to work out all the details of the model, or optimize, until we found one that works well. Consequently, your company saves precious development time and computational resources thanks to scikit-learn giving us the ability to develop models relatively quickly.