StatQuest Simplifies K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm 🧠

Machine learning and Data Mining sure sound like complicated things, but that isn't always the case. Here we talk about the surprisingly simple and surprisingly effective K-nearest neighbors algorithm.

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0:00 Awesome song and introduction
0:21 K-NN overview
0:44 K-NN applied to scatterplot data
2:44 K-NN applied to a heatmap
4:12 Thoughts on how to pick 'K'

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