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A closer look at the core machine learning tasks of classification and regression.
In binary classification we are looking for a yes or no answer.
In multiclass classification there are several options for each data point (e.g. three different species of Iris flower).
In regression we are looking to predict a number based on some set of inputs.
This video dicusses these ideas in more detail.
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