Classification vs Regression in Machine Learning

Jamie Kennedy
DataSoc
Published in
2 min readSep 14, 2020

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The most common problems solved by Machine Learning algorithms are classification and regression. It is very important to know which problem you are facing. Fundamentally, classification is about predicting a label and regression is about predicting a quantity.

Both problems are based on the idea of predictive modeling. We want to build a model using historical data to make a…

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