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Data Science with SQL Server Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Data Science with SQL Server Quick Start Guide Integrate SQL Server with data science

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537123
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dejan Sarka Dejan Sarka
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Preface 1. Writing Queries with T-SQL FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing R 3. Getting Familiar with Python 4. Data Overview 5. Data Preparation 6. Intermediate Statistics and Graphs 7. Unsupervised Machine Learning 8. Supervised Machine Learning 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Unsupervised Machine Learning

Finally, we are there—we are going to do some real data science now. In the last two chapters, I am going to introduce some of the most popular advanced data mining and machine learning algorithms. I will show you how to use them to get in-depth knowledge from your data.

The most common separation of the algorithms is separation into two groups: the unsupervised, or undirected, and the supervised, or directed algorithms. The unsupervised ones have no target variable. You just try to find some interesting patterns, for example, some distinctive groups of cases, in your data. Then you need to analyze the results to make the interpretation possible. Talking about groups of cases, or clusters – you don't know the labels of those clusters in advance. Once you determine them, you need to check the characteristics of input variables...

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