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Fundamentals of Data Mining

Data Science 101

Data mining is the process of discovering these patterns among the data and is therefore also known as Knowledge Discovery from Data (KDD). Machine learning provides the technical basis for data mining. He possesses great interest in machine learning, astronomy and history. Classification.

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Density-Based Clustering

Domino Data Lab

Due to its importance in both theory and applications, this algorithm is one of three algorithms awarded the Test of Time Award at the KDD conference in 2014. In machine learning, one of the most basic classification algorithms is k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) classification. Application.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by OMKAR MURALIDHARAN Many machine learning applications have some kind of regression at their core, so understanding large-scale regression systems is important. But most common machine learning methods don’t give posteriors, and many don’t have explicit probability models. For more on ad CTR estimation, refer to [2].

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