February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
649 pages
14h 32m
English
Machine learning (ML) and classification.
In the prior chapter, data was fed into an algorithm which then attempted to group common types of data. While we occasionally kept labels in order to gain a sense of how the algorithms performed, in real life, unsupervised machine learning is a form of exploratory analysis. Sometimes called pre-processing, it is often an initial phase that includes scaling and centering of data.
Often, the objective is not simply grouping, but the ability to use current data to predict the ...