2017 Irvoduction | Coxsera Introduction Back to Week 1 5/5 points earned (100%) Quiz passed! Be Recognized for Your Achievements. “Course Certificates give you the recognition you need to get the job, the material gives you the skills to do the job. It makes you look more valuable because you are more valuable." - Peter B., USA, Software Developer Showcase Your Accomplishment! Earn Your Course Certificate! £4,012 > wt v points 1 ‘A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and some performance measure P if its performance on T, as measured by P, improves with experience E. Suppose we feed a learning algorithm a lot of historical weather data, and have it learn to predict weather. In this setting, what is T? O None of these. © The probability of it correctly predicting a future date's weather, © The weather prediction task Correct ipsshwenw coursera.cglearnmactine-learringlexamdwjeitintroducton 1“2017 Irvoduction | Coxsera The task described is weather prediction, so this is Task T. © _ The process of the algorithm examining a large amount of historical weather data wn S points 2. The amount of rain that falls in a day is usually measured in either millimeters (nm) or inches. Suppose you use a learning algorithm to predict how much rain will fall tomorrow. Would you treat this asa classineation or a regression problem? © Regression Correct Regression is appropriate when we are trying to predict a continuous- valued output, such as the amount of rainfall measured in inches or mm, © daassification wn v points 3. Suppose you are working on stock market prediction. You would like to predict whether or not a certain company will declare bankruptcy within the next 7 days (by training on data of similar companies that had previously been at risk of bankruptcy). Would you treat this as a classification or a regression problem? O regression © ciassification Correct ipsshwenw coursera.cglearnmactine-learringlexamdwjeitintroducton 24swan0%7 Inivodution | Coursera Classification is appropriate when we are trying to predict one of a small number of discrete-valued outputs. Here, there are two possible outcomes: The company will declare bankruptcy (which we might designate as class 0, say) or that it does not (class 1) voi points 4 Some of the problems below are best addressed using a supervised learning algorithm, and the others with an unsupervised learning algorithm. Which of the following would you apply supervised learning to? (Select all that apply.) In each case, assume some appropriate dataset is available for your algorithm to learn from, Examine the statistics of two football teams, and predicting which team will win tomorrow's match (given historical data of teams' wins/losses to learn from), Correct This can be addressed using supervised learning, in which we learn from historical records to make win/loss predictions. [Z1_ Take a collection of 1000 essays written on the US Economy, and find a way to automatically group these essays into a small number of groups of essays that are somehow "similar" or "related" Un-selected is correct Examine a large collection of emails that are known to be spam email, to discover if there are sub-types of spam mail Un-selected is correct LD Given genetic (DNA) data from a person, predict the odds of him/her developing diabetes over the next 10 years. Correct ipsshwenw coursera.cglearnmactine-learringlexamdwjeitintroducton a42017 Irvoduction | Coxsera This can be addressed as a supervised learning, classification, problem, where we can learn from a labeled dataset comprising different people's genetic data, and labels telling us if they had developed diabetes, wn v points 5. Which of these is a reasonable definition of machine learning? © Machine learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Correct This was the definition given by Arthur Samuel (who had written the famous checkers playing, learning program), © Machine learning is the science of programming computers. © Machine learning learns from labeled data © Machine learning is the field of allowing robots to act intelligently. 69 Pp ipsshwenw coursera.cglearnmactine-learringlexamdwjeitintroducton 4s