12 Questions
What does entropy measure in Decision Trees?
Impurity
In the context of ensemble methods like Random Forest, why are Decision Trees used?
To reduce variance
Which algorithm is suitable for visualizing high-dimensional data in lower dimensions?
t-SNE
What is the main function of the 'k' in K-means algorithm?
Number of clusters
Which clustering algorithm can detect arbitrarily shaped clusters?
DBSCAN
How does Decision Trees handle missing values during split evaluation?
By skipping the missing value during split evaluation
What is the primary use of K-means?
Clustering
Which algorithm is sensitive to outliers?
K-means
What does the perplexity parameter control in t-SNE?
Neighbor search radius
What is the main disadvantage of Decision Trees?
They are prone to overfitting
Which clustering algorithm does not require the user to specify the number of clusters?
DBSCAN
What type of machine learning algorithm is t-SNE?
Unsupervised
Study Notes
Hyperparameters in Algorithms
- The number of nearest neighbors to consider, learning rate, and number of iterations are hyperparameters in algorithms.
Decision Trees in Ensemble Methods
- Decision Trees are used in ensemble methods like Random Forest to reduce variance.
Sensitivity to Input Data Points
- DBSCAN is not sensitive to the order of input data points.
Handling Non-Linear Data
- Decision Trees can handle non-linear data.
K-Means
- The 'k' in K-means represents the number of clusters.
- K-means is primarily used for clustering.
- The number of clusters in K-means is determined by user input.
- K-means is sensitive to outliers.
Visualizing High-Dimensional Data
- t-SNE is suitable for visualizing high-dimensional data in lower dimensions.
- t-SNE can produce a visual representation of the data in 2D or 3D.
Distance Metric
- DBSCAN is sensitive to the choice of distance metric.
Handling Missing Values
- Decision Trees handle missing values by skipping the missing value during split evaluation.
Interpretability
- Decision Trees are known for their interpretability.
Clustering Algorithms
- DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm that can detect arbitrarily shaped clusters.
- DBSCAN does not require the user to specify the number of clusters.
Dimensionality Reduction
- t-SNE is used for reducing the dimensionality of data while preserving the local structure.
Decision Trees
- Entropy is used in Decision Trees to measure impurity.
- Decision Trees can be used for both regression and classification.
- The main disadvantage of Decision Trees is that they are prone to overfitting.
Unsupervised Learning Algorithms
- DBSCAN and t-SNE are unsupervised learning algorithms.
t-SNE
- t-SNE stands for T-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding.
- t-SNE is a type of unsupervised machine learning algorithm.
- The perplexity parameter in t-SNE controls the balance between the attention to local and global aspects of the data.
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