Practice Week 10: Advanced Unsupervised & Dimensionality Reduction - 2 | Module 5: Unsupervised Learning & Dimensionality Reduction (Weeks 10) | Machine Learning
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Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What does GMM stand for?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about clustering.

Question 2

Easy

Name one application of anomaly detection.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider financial transactions.

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Interactive Quizzes

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

Question 1

What is a key advantage of Gaussian Mixture Models over K-Means?

  • A. It's faster.
  • B. It allows soft assignments.
  • C. It requires labeled data.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the flexibility of GMMs.

Question 2

True or False: t-SNE can capture global structures in high-dimensional data.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Recall the purpose of t-SNE.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

As an analyst, you need to choose between GMM and K-Means for a dataset believed to have overlapping clusters. Justify your choice based on the characteristics of your data.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider shapes and cluster distributions.

Question 2

You are tasked with detecting fraud in a dataset with imbalanced classes (few fraud cases). Which anomaly detection algorithm would you favor, Isolation Forest or One-Class SVM, and why?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Reflect on how each algorithm handles data imbalance.

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