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Machine Learning for Data Mining

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Data Mining Improve your data mining capabilities with advanced predictive modeling

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828974
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Support Vector Machines

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) models were built to predict categorical and continuous outcomes and are especially good when you have many predictors. They were developed for difficult predicting situations where linear models were unable to separate the categories of the outcome field. They too work like black boxes, hiding their complex work in predicting results. Let's get an insight into how SVMs work.

Working with Support Vector Machines

Suppose, for example, there is a kind of data that cannot be separated using a single line as shown in this diagram:

Consider these shapes to be different types of data. As you can see, we won't be able to separate a cluster of data by just drawing a...

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