Chapter 10. Clustering News Articles
In most of the previous chapters, we performed data mining knowing what we were looking for. Our use of target classes allowed us to learn how our variables model those targets during the training phase. This type of learning, where we have targets to train against, is called supervised learning. In this chapter, we consider what we do without those targets. This is unsupervised learning and is much more of an exploratory task. Rather than wanting to classify with our model, the goal in unsupervised learning is more about exploring the data to find insights.
In this chapter, we look at clustering news articles to find trends and patterns in the data. We look at how we can extract data from different websites ...
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