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What is represented by the height of the bars in a bar chart?
Frequency or proportion of the category
What is a primary use of heat maps?
In a box plot, what does the median represent?
A line inside the box
Data visualization can help in monitoring machine learning models in real-time.
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Which of the following is NOT a challenge in data visualization?
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What can data visualization help identify in relation to data quality?
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Tree maps are used to display ______ data in a compact format.
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Why is technical expertise important in data visualization?
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What is a challenge when handling large datasets in data visualization?
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Which of the following are common issues with collected data? (Select all that apply)
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What is the first step in the data analysis process?
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What is the aim of the train model step in the machine learning process?
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What does the testing of a machine learning model evaluate?
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Deployment is the first step of the machine learning lifecycle.
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Which of the following is a performance metric for classification? (Select all that apply)
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What does a confusion matrix help to describe?
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When should the accuracy metric be avoided?
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What is the formula for calculating Mean Absolute Error (MAE)?
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The library used for building machine learning and deep learning models developed by Google is called ______.
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What is the purpose of data visualization in machine learning?
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Match the following machine learning tools with their primary functionality:
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What is Machine Learning?
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Who first introduced the term Machine Learning?
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Machine Learning is only concerned with programming languages.
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Name a key feature of Machine Learning.
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What type of learning method provides labeled data to the machine?
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Which of the following is an application of Machine Learning?
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Match the following types of learning with their definitions:
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What is the main goal of Unsupervised Learning?
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The first step in the Machine Learning life cycle is ______.
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Name two categories of supervised learning algorithms.
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Reinforcement Learning relies on supervised input.
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What does the Machine Learning life cycle involve?
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Study Notes
Introduction to Machine Learning
- Alan Turing posed the question, “Can machines think?” in his 1950 paper.
- Arthur Samuel introduced the term "Machine Learning" in 1959, defining it as the capability for computers to learn without explicit programming.
Definitions of Machine Learning
- Machine Learning is a subset of artificial intelligence focused on algorithms that enable computers to learn from data and experiences.
- Jason Brownlee describes it as training models from data to generalize decisions against performance measures.
- Summarized definition: Machine Learning allows machines to learn from data, enhancing performance over time, and making predictions autonomously.
Examples of Machine Learning Applications
- Handwriting recognition involves classifying handwritten words, where the task is identifying words, performance is measured by accuracy, and training data consists of labeled samples.
- Robot driving utilizes vision sensors for navigating highways, focusing on distance traveled before errors occur, with training data from human driver observations.
Features of Machine Learning
- Detects patterns in datasets and learns from past data to improve autonomously.
- Data-driven and similar to data mining, handling large quantities of data.
Need for Machine Learning
- Machine Learning addresses complex tasks that humans cannot easily manage, helping save time and costs.
- Key benefits include the ability to handle vast amounts of data, solve intricate problems, aid decision-making in various industries, and uncover hidden data patterns.
When to Use Machine Learning
- When handwritten rules are overly complex (e.g., face and speech recognition).
- For tasks with constantly evolving rules (e.g., fraud detection).
- In scenarios where data characteristics change dynamically (e.g., automated trading).
Key Terminologies in Machine Learning
- Model: A representation learned from data to recognize patterns or make predictions.
- Feature: A measurable property of data, described by a feature vector (e.g., attributes of a fruit like color and taste).
- Target (Label): The variable to be predicted based on input features (e.g., naming the fruit).
- Training: Process of inputting features and expected outputs to create a hypothesis/model.
- Prediction: Output generated by a trained model based on new input data.
Types of Machine Learning
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Supervised Learning: Involves labeled data for training to predict outputs, further subdivided into:
- Classification: Predicting categorical outcomes (e.g., classifying patients as healthy or sick).
- Regression: Predicting continuous outcomes (e.g., stock price predictions).
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Unsupervised Learning: Trains on unlabeled data to discover hidden structures, categorized into:
- Clustering: Grouping similar data points (e.g., gene clustering).
- Association: Finding rules that describe large portions of data.
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Reinforcement Learning: Features a feedback system where agents learn from rewards and penalties to maximize performance.
Machine Learning Problem Categories
- Supervised Problems: Predict outcomes from historical examples.
- Unsupervised Problems: Organize and analyze data without predefined labels.
Applications of Machine Learning
- Image Recognition: Identifies objects and people, commonly used in social media for automatic tagging.
- Speech Recognition: Converts voice commands into text, enhancing user interactions.
- Traffic Prediction: Utilizes real-time data and historical trends for route optimization.
- Product Recommendations: Analyzes user interest for personalized suggestions (used by platforms like Amazon and Netflix).
- Self-Driving Cars: Employs unsupervised learning to navigate and recognize objects.
- Medical Diagnosis: Aids in detecting diseases and conditions, such as tumor identification.
- Stock Market Trading: Uses algorithms to forecast market trends based on historical data.
Machine Learning Life Cycle
- Gathering Data: Identifying and collecting data from various sources to create a coherent dataset.
- Data Preparation: Organizing the collected data for analysis, including data exploration and preprocessing.
- Data Wrangling: Cleaning data to remove inconsistencies and transform it into a usable format, addressing issues like missing values or noise.
- Data Analysis: Applying analytical techniques to build and evaluate models based on prepared data.
- Train Model: Using datasets to enhance the model's understanding of patterns and rules.
- Test Model: Assessing the model's accuracy with test datasets to ensure it meets project requirements.
- Deployment: Implementing the model in a real-world system if it produces accurate results at an acceptable speed.### Performance Measures in Machine Learning
- Evaluating a machine learning model's performance is crucial for effective model building.
- Performance metrics, also known as evaluation metrics, assess the model's quality and how well it generalizes to new data.
- Each machine learning task is categorized primarily into classification and regression, necessitating specific metrics for each type.
Performance Metrics for Classification
- Accuracy: Ratio of correct predictions to total predictions; best used when classes are balanced.
- Confusion Matrix: A tabular representation of true vs predicted outcomes in binary classification, exhibiting True Positives (TP), True Negatives (TN), False Positives (FP), and False Negatives (FN).
- Precision: Measures the accuracy of positive predictions; calculated as TP / (TP + FP).
- Recall (Sensitivity): Measures the proportion of actual positives correctly identified; calculated as TP / (TP + FN).
- F-Score: Harmonic mean of precision and recall; useful when considering both positives and negatives.
- AUC-ROC: Visual representation of model performance across various thresholds; assesses True Positive Rate (Recall) vs. False Positive Rate; AUC value ranges from 0 to 1.
Performance Metrics for Regression
- Mean Absolute Error (MAE): Measures average absolute difference between actual and predicted values.
- Mean Squared Error (MSE): Measures average of squared differences between predicted and actual values; emphasizes larger errors.
- R-squared Score: Indicates the proportion of variance explained by the model relative to a baseline; values range from 0 to 1.
- Adjusted R-squared: Modified version of R-squared that adjusts for the number of independent variables in the model.
Machine Learning Tools and Frameworks
- TensorFlow: Open-source library from Google Brain; used for machine and deep learning, providing the Keras API for ease of model building and training.
- PyTorch: Open-source framework from Facebook AI Research; suitable for deep learning with dynamic computation graphs.
- Google Cloud ML Engine: Hosted platform for ML model development; supports building and training with various data sizes.
- Amazon Machine Learning (AML): Cloud-based service for building ML models; integrates with AWS data sources.
- Apache Mahout: Open-source project focused on linear algebra for developing ML applications.
Data Visualization
- Essential for understanding data patterns, relationships, and trends.
- Helps analysts interpret complex datasets and identify outliers and inconsistencies.
Types of Data Visualization Approaches
- Line Charts: Display time-series data trends over time.
- Scatter Plots: Show relationships between two variables; useful for identifying patterns and clusters.
- Bar Charts: Present categorical data, comparing frequencies across categories.
- Heat Maps: Visualize matrix data with colors to indicate correlation or patterns.
- Tree Maps: Compactly represent hierarchical data relationships.
- Box Plots: Illustrate data distribution, revealing the range and skewness of the data.
Uses of Data Visualization in Machine Learning
- Identify trends and patterns.
- Support effective communication of insights to stakeholders.
- Monitor model performance in real time.
- Improve data quality by visualizing outliers.
Challenges in Data Visualization
- Selecting appropriate visualization techniques can be complex and requires deep understanding of datasets.
- High-quality, accurate data is crucial for effective visualizations; inconsistencies can mislead insights.
- Large datasets pose difficulties in extracting meaningful insights without cluttered visuals.
- Visualizations must be designed to be easily interpretable by the target audience.
- Effective visualizations often demand technical expertise in programming and statistical concepts.
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