Classification, regression, and prediction — what’s the difference

 By Medium - 2020-12-12

Description

The coarsest way to, ahem, classify supervised machine learning (ML) tasks is into classification versus prediction. (What’s supervised ML? See the video below if you need a refresher.) If you’re new…

Summary

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  • For an example of a classification task plus an overview of algorithms and optimization, see the article where I first used this graphic.
  • The trickiest thing with understanding what you’re looking at is that the label is contained in the vertical axis of prediction illustrations but in the color/shape of the label in classification illustrations.
  • In my opinion, the classification versus prediction taxonomy is worth knowing in a broad-strokes way — useful to get you started, but not a law of the universe.

 

Topics

  1. Machine_Learning (0.32)
  2. Backend (0.3)
  3. Database (0.13)

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