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3 - Week 6: Support Vector Machines (SVM) & Decision Trees

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Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is the main purpose of Support Vector Machines?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about classification tasks and decision boundaries.

Question 2

Easy

Name a measure of impurity used in Decision Trees.

πŸ’‘ Hint: These measures help evaluate how mixed the classes are.

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 a hyperplane in the context of SVMs?

  • A margin separator
  • A type of kernel
  • A misclassified point

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how classes are divided.

Question 2

True or False: Soft margin SVM allows for some misclassifications during classification.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider the rigidity of hard margin SVM.

Solve and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design a classification problem using both SVM and Decision Tree. Which one would you prefer for this scenario and why?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the context of the application and audience.

Question 2

Given a dataset with some noise and overlapping classes, describe how you would tune your SVM model’s parameters. Explain what to adjust and why.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Contemplate the nature of the dataset's distribution.

Challenge and get performance evaluation