models such as this can enable planners designers and decisionmakers with the information needed to assess vulnerabilities in infrastructure systems and make decisions based on likely scenarios and create high resilience infrastructure as well as plan for swift repair and recovery in fact all of our lives have already been touched by machine learning in one way or another and the future will bring many more applications into our daily lives recommendations for products from websites like amazon and netflix sentiment analysis of social media embedded into several products and google and teslas selfdriving cars are just a few examples of machine learning algorithms at play using algorithms that iteratively learn from data machine learning allows computers to find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where to look