Unsupervised learning demystified – Hacker Noon

Unsupervised learning may sound like a fancy way to say "let the kids learn on their own not to touch the hot oven" but it's actually a pattern-finding technique for mining inspiration from your data. It has nothing to do with machines running around without adult supervision, forming their own opinions about things. This post is beginner-friendly, but assumes you're familiar with the story so far: Check out the six instances above. These photographs are not accompanied by labels. No worries, your brain is pretty good at unsupervised learning.