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State the difference between clustering and classification
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CLASSIFICATION | CLUSTERING |
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Classification is supervised learning technique used to assign per-defined tag to instance on the basis of features | Clustering is unsupervised technique used to group similar instances on the basis of features. |
Classification algorithm requires training data. | Clustering does not require training data. |
Classification,model is uses pre-defined instances. | Clustering does not assign pre-defined label to each and every group. |
With classification the groups (or classes) are specified before hand, with each training data instance belonging to a particular class. | With clustering the groups (or clusters) are based on the similarities of data instances to each other. |
Classification algorithms are supposed to learn the association between the features of the instance and the class they belong to. | No predefined output class is used in training and the clustering algorithm is supposed to learn the grouping. |
Example : An insurance company trying to assign customers into high risk and low risk categories. | Example : An online movie company recommending you a movie because other customers who had made similar movie choices as you in the past have favorably rated that movie. |