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What do descriptive questions What happened? (e.g., which customers are most alike)

ask?


What do predictive questions What will happen? (e.g., what will Google's stock price be?)

ask?


What do prescriptive questions What action(s) would be best? (e.g., where to put traffic lights)

ask?


What is a model? Real-life situation expressed as math.


What do classifiers help you do? differentiate


In some cases, there won't be a line that separates all of the
What is a soft classifier and
labeled examples. So we use a classifier that minimizes the
when is it used?
number of mistakes.


What does it mean when the The horizontal attribute is all that is needed.

classifier/decision boundary is

almost parallel to the vertical x-

axis?


What does it mean when the The vertical attribute is all that is needed.

classifier/decision boundary is

almost parallel to the horizontal

y-axis?


The same data recorded over time often recorded at equal
What is time-series data?
intervals


Number with a meaning: higher means more, lower means less
What is quantitative data?
(e.g., age, sales, temperature, income)


Numbers w/o meaning (e.g., zip codes), non-numeric (e.g., hair
What is categorical data?
color), binary data (e.g., male/female, yes/no, on/off)

, Which of these is time series A

data?

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 B

data?

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 A.

each person's family size and A data point is all the information about one observation

type of car. Which of these is a

data point?

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 The bigger the mistake we've made

classified point is from the line

___


The term including the margin As lambda gets larger

gets larger so the importance of

a large margin out weights

avoiding mistakes and

classifying known data samples.


That term also drops towards As lambda drops towards zero

zero, so the importance of

minimizing mistakes and

classifying known data points

outweighs having a large

margin.


to find a classifier with maximum seperation or margin between
What can SVMs be used for
the two sets of points?


If it's impossible to avoid classification errors, SVM can find a

When to use SVM? classifier that trades off reducing errors and enlarging the

margin.


What does this formula describe?


Error for data point j

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