Top 10 Data Mining Algorithms, Explained

Today, I'm going to explain in plain English the top 10 most influential data mining algorithms as voted on by 3 separate panels in this survey paper. Once you know what they are, how they work, what they do and where you can find them, my hope is you'll have this blog post as a springboard to learn even more about data mining. In order to do this, C4.5 is given a set of data representing things that are already classified. A classifier is a tool in data mining that takes a bunch of data representing things we want to classify and attempts to predict which class the new data belongs to. Sure, suppose a dataset contains a bunch of patients.