Supervised vs unsupervised

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  • I’m still a bit confused with classification and clustering. can it be said that the clustering method is an unsupervised classification method? because the same is grouping? is my understanding less precise?

Hi @disi great question

The idea behind classification is that you have a target label, for instance if you want to predict pneumonia from x-ray images, you can classify your images into pneumonia or non-pneumonia, you have a define target, however if you want to find patterns in your image that help you to cluster based on features that is a clustering algorithm, it is an unsupervised method since you don’t have a specific target label, instead you want to group your images based on how similar they are

I hope this helps!

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