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Data mining

Learn data mining hands on: frequent itemsets, association rules, decision trees, precision and recall, and recommendations.

5 lessons280 min lessonAI and data science

The lessons

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  1. 1 · Container lab

    Frequent itemsets and market basket analysis

    I can find the items that often occur together in a set of baskets.

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  2. 2 · Container lab

    Association rules: confidence and lift

    I can turn a frequent pattern into a rule and rate it with confidence and lift.

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  3. 3 · Container lab

    Decision trees: entropy and information gain

    I can choose the best question to split a data set using information gain.

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  4. 4 · Container lab

    Precision, recall and the confusion matrix

    I can judge a model with a confusion matrix, precision and recall on a test set.

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  5. 5 · Container lab

    How recommendation systems work

    I can recommend items by scoring them with the likes of similar users.

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