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The CART data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  CART stands for classification and regression trees.  It is a decision tree learning technique that outputs either classification or regression trees. …

The Naive Bayes data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  Naive Bayes is not a single algorithm, but a family of classification algorithms that share one common assumption: Every …

The kNN data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  kNN, or k-Nearest Neighbors, is a classification algorithm. However, it differs from the classifiers previously described because it’s a lazy …

The AdaBoost data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  AdaBoost is a boosting algorithm which constructs a classifier. As you probably remember, a classifier takes a bunch of data …

The PageRank data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  PageRank is a link analysis algorithm designed to determine the relative importance of some object linked within a network of objects. …

The EM data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  In data mining, expectation-maximization (EM) is generally used as a clustering algorithm (like k-means) for knowledge discovery. In statistics, the …

The Apriori data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  The Apriori algorithm learns association rules and is applied to a database containing a large number of transactions. What are …

The SVM data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do?  Support vector machine (SVM) learns a hyperplane to classify data into 2 classes. At a high-level, SVM performs a similar …