BD Brain Drip
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Module 07 8 concepts

Unsupervised Learning

Clustering, dimensionality reduction, and anomaly detection.

01

Anomaly Detection

Identifying data points that deviate significantly from the norm – isolation forests, autoencoders, and statistical approaches.

02

Association Rules

Discovering frequent itemsets and co-occurrence patterns in transactional data – the Apriori algorithm and market basket analysis.

03

DBSCAN

Discovering arbitrarily-shaped clusters based on point density – no need to specify K, naturally identifies outliers.

04

Gaussian Mixture Models

Soft clustering via a weighted sum of Gaussians fitted with EM – probabilistic assignment captures cluster uncertainty.

05

Hierarchical Clustering

Building a tree of nested clusters via agglomerative merging or divisive splitting – revealing multi-scale data structure.

06

K-Means Clustering

Partitioning data into K groups by iteratively assigning points to nearest centroids – simple, fast, and surprisingly effective.

07

Principal Component Analysis

Projecting data onto orthogonal directions of maximum variance – the foundational dimensionality reduction technique.

08

t-SNE and UMAP

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction for visualization – preserving local neighborhood structure in 2D/3D plots.