Re:An Introduction to Data Mining
by dpatru on Sunday May 22, 2011 @09:30AM
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The graphic does what it's intended to do: give a high-level overview of machine learning concepts and techniques. Even if not perfect, it's a lot better than a block of text.
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it still isn't the way i'd do it. the sheer number of different methods is intimidating -- there are a lot of commonalities of the methods that aren't depicted.
if you wanted to make things clear you're better off picking ONE problem and ONE method applied to the problem. the real challenges in understanding ML or DM are pretty much the same with all methods.
a graphic like that creates the illusion that it's transfered some knowledge when really it hasn't. that's why infographics are dangerous. if HN was my site i'd have it reject any article that has an image that's > 800 pixels high in it.
"it still isn't the way i'd do it."
I look forward to your attempt!
It just helped me a lot. Last night I'd drilled down reading about Support Vector machines and seeing that chart put a bunch of topics in focus.
The only thing this graphic does is that it generates confusion and reinforces misconceptions. A tree diagram is completely inadequate for this task - they say that mathematics is about "analogies between analogies" for a reason.