Summary
In this chapter, we discussed one of the major areas of application in machine learning, known as classification.
We discussed the internal working and learned to use, three of the most popular classification algorithms and discussed all the four processes involved in the classification project: train, test, validate and predict.
In the next chapter, we will discuss topic modeling on top of text data and frequent pattern mining on top of product purchase transactions. Both of the topics have a wide area of practical application and is used extensively by the Industry.
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