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This course explains k-nearest neighbors for classification and regression through visual examples. It covers choosing k, distance metrics, feature scaling, categorical data, computational limitations, and techniques such as data reduction and tree-based search.
Syllabus
Intro
for classification
Choice of k matters
Feature scaling matters
Distance metric matters
K-NN with categorical data
for regression
Expensive to compute with large data sets. Sensitive to feature scaling. Sensitive to distance metric.
Taught by
Brandon Rohrer