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Aadnan Farooq A
Aadnan Farooq A

Reputation: 646

classification and data mining. Difference?

I am working in the area of machine learning and pattern recognition for the last 8-10 years. I use it for image classification and recognition. Recently, I started learning about some Data Mining. How much is data mining related to classification? Or can I as a person with experience on image classification work on data mining?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 128

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Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse
Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse

Reputation: 77454

Classification is one of many machine learning techniques used in data mining. But usually, you'd simply use the more precise "machine learning" category for classification. Data mining is he explorative side - you want to understand the data. That can mean learning to predict, but mostly to understand what can be predicted (and what not) and how (which features etc.). In many cases, classification is used in a way that I'd not include in data mining. If you just want to recognize images as cars or not (but don't care about the "why") it's probably not data mining.

Upvotes: 2

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