Practice Comprehensive Performance Comparison And In-depth Discussion (5.7.6) - Unsupervised Learning & Dimensionality Reduction (Weeks 9)
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Comprehensive Performance Comparison and In-Depth Discussion

Practice - Comprehensive Performance Comparison and In-Depth Discussion

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is K-Means clustering?

💡 Hint: Think about how it groups similar data points.

Question 2 Easy

Define a dendrogram.

💡 Hint: It visually depicts relationships between clusters.

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Question 1

What does K-Means require before clustering?

Predefined clusters
Predefined features
Predefined distance metric

💡 Hint: Think about how K-Means initializes its process.

Question 2

True or False: DBSCAN can handle clusters of varying shapes.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the definition of how DBSCAN clusters data.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

You have a dataset of customer purchase records with both continuous and categorical variables. Propose a strategy for using K-Means and explain how you would preprocess the data.

💡 Hint: Consider how encoding influences distance calculations.

Challenge 2 Hard

Imagine a dataset where clusters have various densities. Discuss how you would use DBSCAN effectively, identifying the parameters to tune.

💡 Hint: Think about how to handle points that might not fit into clusters.

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