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Data science lifecycle Tabular dataset Target variable Feature matrix Train validation test split Data dictionary Reproducible random seed Notebook versus script Data provenance Experiment tracking

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NumPy array creation Array shape Array dtype Array slicing Boolean masking Broadcasting Vectorized arithmetic Aggregation reshape Matrix multiplication

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DataFrame creation Read CSV Select columns Filter rows sort_values groupby merge pivot_table set_index Missing values

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Drop duplicates Fill missing numeric values Fill missing categorical values Parse dates String cleanup Outlier detection IQR Type conversion Category dtype Rename columns Validate ranges

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Descriptive statistics Mean median mode Variance standard deviation Quantiles Correlation Frequency table Crosstab Histogram Box plot Scatter plot

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Modeling & Evaluation

Linear regression Logistic regression Decision tree concept K nearest neighbors K means clustering Confusion matrix Precision recall Cross validation Baseline model Model persistence

Data Science Foundations / Modeling & Evaluation

K nearest neighbors

Learn K nearest neighbors in Data Science Foundations with a focused explanation, a topic-specific example, edge guidance, and a mastery check.

12 min read • Advanced

data-science-074.py

python

from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
X=[[1,1],[1,2],[4,4],[5,4]];y=["A","A","B","B"]
model=KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=3).fit(X,y)
print(model.predict([[3.8,3.7]]))

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K nearest neighbors Mastery Check →

Decision tree concept

K means clustering