Data science modeling tasks

  • Classification-Deciding if something belongs to one category or another
  • Scoring-Predicting or estimating a numeric value, such as a price or probability
  • Ranking-Learning to order items by preferences
  • Clustering-Grouping items into most-similar groups
  • Finding relations-Finding correlations or potential causes of effects seen in the data
  • Characterizing-Very general plotting and report generation from data

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