Classification

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Classification

Classification forms a very important topic in Data science. It is used widely in many applications. 

Classification is labelling. For example, you can look at all the vehicles on the road a label them as “Cars” or “Bikes” or “Trucks”. Here we classify the objects into categories. 

 Classification in the real world

  • Medical Diagnosis 
    Diagnose diseases like Cancers, where classification is used to know if a tumor is malignant or benign  
  • Sentiment Analysis
    Classification can be used to analyze if a text/review/tweet is positive, negative or neutral.