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Classification

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Definition: Classification is a data mining (machine learning) technique used to predict group membership for data instances. For example, you may wish to use classification to predict whether the weather on a particular day will be “sunny”, “rainy” or “cloudy”. Popular classification techniques include decision trees and neural networks.

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