Unsupervised Learning - Yousef's Notes
Unsupervised Learning

Unsupervised Learning

Use unlabeled data, modeling the underlying structure or distribution.

#Main Algorithms

#Examples

#Clustering

Grouping similar data points based on intrinsic characteristics. e.g. identifying natural groupings or sub-populations in data; highlighting patterns or anomalies (e.g. segmentation in marketing)

#Dimensionality Reduction

Reducing the number of features or dimensions in a dataset while retaining as much relevant information as possible. e.g. noise reduction, visualization, computational complexity.

#Outlier Detection

Identifying data points that deviate significantly from the majority of the dataset. These outliers may represent rare or anomalous events, errors, or unusual patterns.