Artificial Intelligence combines mathematical algorithms and techniques from Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Big Data to extract the knowledge contained in the data and present it in an understandable and automatic way. Neural networks and their applications are a fundamental tool to develop work in Artificial Intelligence. The availability of large volumes of data and the generalized use of computer tools has transformed research and data analysis, orienting it towards certain specialized techniques encompassed under the generic name of Analytics that includes Multivariate Data Analysis (MDA), Data Mining, Machine Learning and other Business Intelligence techniques. Data Mining (or Machine Learning) can be defined as a process of discovering new and significant relationships, patterns and trends when examining large amounts of data. The techniques of Data Mining pursue the automatic discovery of the knowledge contained in the information stored in an orderly manner in large databases. These techniques aim to discover patterns, profiles and trends through the analysis of data using advanced statistical techniques of multivariate data analysis. Clustering is the most common descriptive technique. It is used for exploratory data analysis to find hidden patterns or groupings in data. Applications for clustering include gene sequence analysis, market research, and object recognition. This book develops classification descriptive techniques. Throughout this book the techniques of analytics for clustering and classification based on neural networks are developed using MATLAB software and in concrete Neural Network Toolbox
