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Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan
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Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan

Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan is a research engineer working for INRIA in Lille, France. He is a part of the MODAL (Models of Data Analysis and Learning) team, and he works on metric learning, predictor aggregation, and data visualization. He is a regular contributor to the Python open source community, and completed Google Summer of Code in 2016 with Gensim where he implemented Dynamic Topic Models. He is a regular speaker at PyCons and PyDatas across Europe and Asia, and conducts tutorials on text analysis using Python.
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In our previous section, we discussed cluster, which was an unsupervised learning algorithm. Classification, on the other hand, is a supervised learning algorithm. What does supervised and unsupervised mean? In our previous example, we had the labels or the truth values. This is information about which class or label a document actually belongs to. But you would have also noticed we never used this information. When we trained our model, we never used the labels. This kind of learning is called unsupervised learning, and clustering is a popular example of an unsupervised learning task.

In classification problems, we are aware of the classes which we want to assign documents or data points to, and we use this information to train our model. In fact, as we are going to see very soon - there is hardly any change in our approach to clustering and classification, apart...

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Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan

Bhargav Srinivasa-Desikan is a research engineer working for INRIA in Lille, France. He is a part of the MODAL (Models of Data Analysis and Learning) team, and he works on metric learning, predictor aggregation, and data visualization. He is a regular contributor to the Python open source community, and completed Google Summer of Code in 2016 with Gensim where he implemented Dynamic Topic Models. He is a regular speaker at PyCons and PyDatas across Europe and Asia, and conducts tutorials on text analysis using Python.
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