Glossary · Phase 3 · Machine learning

Nearest neighbors

Also written: k-nearest neighbors, kNN, k-NN

Predicting from the most similar past examples.

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Every spot on the plane takes the majority vote of its k nearest points. Slide k from 1 up to 51.

Nearest neighbors · Predict from the most similar examples. About 25 minutes.

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