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Classification is a subcategory of Supervised Learning (Machine Learning with a known past
outcome) where the goal is to predict two or more categorical class labels of new records based
on past observations.
Examples of Classification:
• Classify cells as “cancerous or benign tumor”, using the data from any medical device and patient
information possible, including demographics and X-rays, MRI and other measurements.
• Identify a transaction as "fraud or not fraud", based on customer past behavior, location of the
transaction, time of day, day of week, distance to home, distance to last transaction and time to last
transaction (to check for feasibility of physically being there), credit limits, etc.
• Predict whether a customer is going to “buy or not buy a product”, based on past customer purchase
behavior, previous marketing campaign information, website visits, likes and dislikes, etc.
• Understand whether a machine is going to "fail soon or not", based on IoT sensor data, weather
predictions, locations, past failure data, etc.
Machine learning can be applied to a wide range of business problems
What is Classification?
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