fibromyalgia, surgery. Details: I have severe muscle and tendon cramps, both from fibromyalgia and a tendon requiring surgery. I have been treated with several muscle relaxers and none seem to work very well.
Within the field of data analytics, machine learning is a method used to devise complex models and algorithms that lend themselves to prediction; in commercial use, this is known as predictive analytics.
Machine learning happens to be a small part of this process. The model building process involves setting up ways of collecting data, understanding and paying attention to what is important in the data to answer the questions you are asking, finding a statistical, mathematical or a simulation model to gain understanding and make predictions.