diff --git a/1-Introduction/4-techniques-of-ML/README.md b/1-Introduction/4-techniques-of-ML/README.md index 8d06355f4..0b4d20ff4 100644 --- a/1-Introduction/4-techniques-of-ML/README.md +++ b/1-Introduction/4-techniques-of-ML/README.md @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ To be able to answer your question with any kind of certainty, you need a good a ### Features and Target -A [feature](https://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/an-introduction-to-variable-and-feature-selection) is a measurable property of your data. In many datasets it is expressed as a column heading like 'date' 'size' or 'color'. Your feature variable, usually represented as `X` in code, represent the input variable which will be used to train model. +A [feature](https://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/an-introduction-to-variable-and-feature-selection) is a measurable property of your data. In many datasets it is expressed as a column heading like 'date' 'size' or 'color'. Your feature variable, usually represented as `X` in code, represents the input variable which will be used to train a model. -A target is a thing you are trying to predict. Target usually represented as `y` in code, represents the answer to the question you are trying to ask of your data: in December, what **color** pumpkins will be cheapest? in San Francisco, what neighborhoods will have the best real estate **price**? Sometimes target is also referred as label attribute. +A target is a thing you are trying to predict. Target, usually represented as `y` in code, represents the answer to the question you are trying to ask of your data: in December, what **color** pumpkins will be cheapest? in San Francisco, what neighborhoods will have the best real estate **price**? Sometimes target is also referred to as a label attribute. ### Selecting your feature variable