Unsupervised vs Supervised Learning

Here I breakdown the difference between unsupervised and supervised learning, and the most known algorithms used in each.
August 17, 2023
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Unsupervised vs Supervised Learning

Unsupervised Learning is learning from unlabelled data to identify hidden patterns

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In supervised learning, algorithms are trained using labeled data, and trained on that basis, the algorithm can predict an output for instances where this label is not known.

There are mainly 2 types of supervised learning algorithms:

  1. Regression, where your output variable is a continuous variable.
  2. Classification, where your output variable is categorical.

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