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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals

You're reading from   Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals Develop real-world applications powered by the latest AI advances

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789801651
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zsolt Nagy Zsolt Nagy
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Introduction to Clustering

In the previous chapters, we dealt with supervised learning algorithms to perform classification and regression. We used training data to train our classification or regression model, and then we validated our model using testing data.

In this chapter, we will perform unsupervised learning by using clustering algorithms.

We may use clustering to analyze data to find certain patterns and create groups. Apart from that, clustering can be used for many purposes:

  • Market segmentation detects the best stocks in the market you should be focusing on fundamentally. We can detect trends, segment customers, or recommend certain products to certain customer types using clustering.
  • In computer vision, image segmentation is performed using clustering, where we find different objects in an image that a computer processes.
  • Clustering can be combined with classification, where clustering may generate a compact representation of multiple features, which...
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