An introduction to Active Learning
3 min readMay 7, 2021
Do you know what scares me? Having to go through a mountain of data to come up with labels.
Data labeling is hard, expensive, and sometimes outright prohibitive. Data labeling can kill your machine learning project even before it starts.
Let’s kick this off with a hypothetical problem: we’d like to build a model capable of visually inspecting photos of circuit boards and…