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M07.1 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Build a tiny prediction model

A coffee truck has to guess tomorrow's sales from the weather forecast. Build the straight-line rule behind that guess, and find the one line that misses least.

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Lesson overview

A coffee truck has to guess tomorrow's sales from the weather forecast. Build the straight-line rule behind that guess, and find the one line that misses least.

What you’ll explore

  • A linear predictor uses weights to turn numeric features into a prediction; residual and loss describe different aspects of its error.
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Dive into Deep Learning — linear regressionAn Introduction to Statistical Learning — authors’ materials
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