Practice Activities - 6.2 | Module 3: Supervised Learning - Classification Fundamentals (Weeks 6) | Machine Learning
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6.2 - Activities

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Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is the purpose of scaling data before using SVM?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how different ranges in features might influence distance.

Question 2

Easy

What does the 'C' parameter control in SVM?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what happens when you set 'C' to a very high value.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is the primary goal of Support Vector Machines?

  • To maximize the margin between two classes
  • To minimize the average distance to each point
  • To enhance visualization of data

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the concept of distance and classification.

Question 2

True or False: Decision Trees can easily handle both numerical and categorical data without preprocessing.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what type of data a decision tree can process directly.

Solve and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Given a dataset with overlapping classes, explain how you would proceed with model selection and justify your choice based on the characteristics of Decision Trees and SVMs.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how each model reacts to noise in data.

Question 2

Design a plan to handle overfitting in a Decision Tree model. What steps would include, and what parameters would you tune?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what 'pruning' means in the context of a tree.

Challenge and get performance evaluation