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# Week 1
## Neural network
Let's see what exactly a neural network is. Let's consider an example on houring price prediction.
So suppose we have the data of 6 houses along with their prices and we're going to use it to make a machine learning model.
Now in machine learning, we would simply plot a line in the graph using some like linear regression. *Let's plot it in the above example.*
Now we have drawn a simple blue linear line that can work pretty well on the above dataset.
But heyyy, wait! Price can-not be negative, atleast in our case, it seems illogical to sell a house at negative price. So to fix that, we'll put a simple straight line at the x-axis so that the blue line can never go below x-axis.
Now if you see closely, you would see, we have built a simple machine learning model. But in fact, this is also a deep learning model.
And as you can see, this is our neural network, basically a single perceptron for our dataset. In fact, the function we used above is very widely used in deep learning and is known as [**ReLU**](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]**.**
In the above example, we had nothing but house size. But suppose, now we have a lot more information about the house, in such cases, we create a more complex neural network like below.
## Supervised learning
Supervised learning is basically training a deep learning (or machine learning) model on a data, which has all the labels including the target label.
It can be done in any of the way.
### Structured data
A data that is in more of a tablular format.
### Un-structured data
Some data like images, audios or something else that is not structured properly.
[^1]: Rectified Linear Units
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