ISYE 6501 - Midterm 1
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,What do descriptive questions ask? What happened? (e.g., which customers are most alike)
What do predictive questions ask? What will happen? (e.g., what will Google's stock price be?)
What do prescriptive questions ask? What action(s) would be best? (e.g., where to put traffic lights)
What is a model? Real-life situation expressed as math.
What do classifiers help you do? differentiate
What is a soft classifier and when is it used? In some cases, there won't be a line that separates all of the labeled examples.
So we use a classifier that minimizes the number of mistakes.
What does it mean when the classifier/decision boundary The horizontal attribute is all that is needed.
is almost parallel to the vertical x-axis?
What does it mean when the classifier/decision boundary The vertical attribute is all that is needed.
is almost parallel to the horizontal y-axis?
What is time-series data? The same data recorded over time often recorded at equal intervals
What is quantitative data? Number with a meaning: higher means more, lower means less (e.g., age, sales,
temperature, income)
What is categorical data? Numbers w/o meaning (e.g., zip codes), non-numeric (e.g., hair color), binary
data (e.g., male/female, yes/no, on/off)
Which of these is time series data? A
A. The average cost of a house in the United States
every year since 1820
B. The height of each professional basketball player in
the NBA at the start of the season
Which of these is structured data? B
A. The contents of a person's Twitter feed
B. The amount of money in a person's bank account
What is structured data? Data that can be stores in a structured way
What is unstructured data? Data that is not easily described and stored (e.g., written text)
, A survey of 25 people recorded each person's family size A.
and type of car. Which of these is a data point? A data point is all the information about one observation
A. The 14th person's family size and car type
B. The 14th person's family size
C.The car type of each person
The farther the wrongly classified point is from the line The bigger the mistake we've made
___
The term including the margin gets larger so the As lambda gets larger
importance of a large margin out weights avoiding
mistakes and classifying known data samples.
That term also drops towards zero, so the importance of As lambda drops towards zero
minimizing mistakes and classifying known data points
outweighs having a large margin.
What can SVMs be used for to find a classifier with maximum seperation or margin between the two sets of
points?
When to use SVM? If it's impossible to avoid classification errors, SVM can find a classifier that
trades off reducing errors and enlarging the margin.
Error for data point j What does this formula describe?
Total error What does this formula describe ?
To maximize the distance between the two lines what do
we need to minimize?
m_j > 1 What value do we give for more costly errors
Giving a bad loan is twice as costly as withholding a What does this mean in the context of giving a loan?
good loan?
m_j < 1 What value do we give for less costly errors?
Why is it important to scale our data when using SVM? We're looking to minimize the sum of the squares of the coefficients, but if our
data has very different scales a small change in one could swamp a huge
change in the other.
what does it signify when a coefficient for a classifier is it means the corresponding attribute is probably not relevant
close to zero
What do kernel methods allow for in SVMs nonlinear classifiers
What is the common range for scaled data? between 0 and 1
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,What do descriptive questions ask? What happened? (e.g., which customers are most alike)
What do predictive questions ask? What will happen? (e.g., what will Google's stock price be?)
What do prescriptive questions ask? What action(s) would be best? (e.g., where to put traffic lights)
What is a model? Real-life situation expressed as math.
What do classifiers help you do? differentiate
What is a soft classifier and when is it used? In some cases, there won't be a line that separates all of the labeled examples.
So we use a classifier that minimizes the number of mistakes.
What does it mean when the classifier/decision boundary The horizontal attribute is all that is needed.
is almost parallel to the vertical x-axis?
What does it mean when the classifier/decision boundary The vertical attribute is all that is needed.
is almost parallel to the horizontal y-axis?
What is time-series data? The same data recorded over time often recorded at equal intervals
What is quantitative data? Number with a meaning: higher means more, lower means less (e.g., age, sales,
temperature, income)
What is categorical data? Numbers w/o meaning (e.g., zip codes), non-numeric (e.g., hair color), binary
data (e.g., male/female, yes/no, on/off)
Which of these is time series data? A
A. The average cost of a house in the United States
every year since 1820
B. The height of each professional basketball player in
the NBA at the start of the season
Which of these is structured data? B
A. The contents of a person's Twitter feed
B. The amount of money in a person's bank account
What is structured data? Data that can be stores in a structured way
What is unstructured data? Data that is not easily described and stored (e.g., written text)
, A survey of 25 people recorded each person's family size A.
and type of car. Which of these is a data point? A data point is all the information about one observation
A. The 14th person's family size and car type
B. The 14th person's family size
C.The car type of each person
The farther the wrongly classified point is from the line The bigger the mistake we've made
___
The term including the margin gets larger so the As lambda gets larger
importance of a large margin out weights avoiding
mistakes and classifying known data samples.
That term also drops towards zero, so the importance of As lambda drops towards zero
minimizing mistakes and classifying known data points
outweighs having a large margin.
What can SVMs be used for to find a classifier with maximum seperation or margin between the two sets of
points?
When to use SVM? If it's impossible to avoid classification errors, SVM can find a classifier that
trades off reducing errors and enlarging the margin.
Error for data point j What does this formula describe?
Total error What does this formula describe ?
To maximize the distance between the two lines what do
we need to minimize?
m_j > 1 What value do we give for more costly errors
Giving a bad loan is twice as costly as withholding a What does this mean in the context of giving a loan?
good loan?
m_j < 1 What value do we give for less costly errors?
Why is it important to scale our data when using SVM? We're looking to minimize the sum of the squares of the coefficients, but if our
data has very different scales a small change in one could swamp a huge
change in the other.
what does it signify when a coefficient for a classifier is it means the corresponding attribute is probably not relevant
close to zero
What do kernel methods allow for in SVMs nonlinear classifiers
What is the common range for scaled data? between 0 and 1
