Unit 2.2 โ€” Unsupervised Learning

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[Verse 1]
When labels disappear and patterns hide in plain sight
No teacher guides your algorithm through the night
Customer behaviors swirl in multidimensional space
Clustering reveals the tribes without a trace
K-means divides with centroids as anchors
DBSCAN finds the density, ignores the wankers

[Chorus]
Unsupervised, we excavate the buried gold
Silhouette scores and elbow plots unfold
PCA compresses while t-SNE maps the view
When structure's what you're hunting, here's what algorithms do
Cluster, reduce, detect what doesn't fit
Intrinsic metrics tell you when you've nailed it

[Verse 2]
Hierarchical builds dendrograms like family trees
Gaussian mixtures blend probabilities with ease
Dimensionality reduction saves computational breath
PCA preserves variance, UMAP conquers death
Of high-dimensional curse that plagues machine learning souls
While autoencoders reconstruct anomalous holes

[Chorus]
Unsupervised, we excavate the buried gold
Silhouette scores and elbow plots unfold
PCA compresses while t-SNE maps the view
When structure's what you're hunting, here's what algorithms do
Cluster, reduce, detect what doesn't fit
Intrinsic metrics tell you when you've nailed it

[Bridge]
Isolation Forest isolates the odd ones out
Local Outlier Factor leaves no statistical doubt
Davies-Bouldin index measures cluster separation clean
Association rules reveal what shopping baskets really mean
Market basket analysis connects the dots between
Products that dance together in consumer buying scenes

[Verse 3]
E-commerce segmentation splits customers in tribes
Geographic, demographic, behavioral vibes
UMAP visualization paints the clustering tale
When ground truth is absent, intrinsic methods never fail
Extrinsic validation needs external comparison
But silhouette and cohesion judge each cluster's garrison

[Chorus]
Unsupervised, we excavate the buried gold
Silhouette scores and elbow plots unfold
PCA compresses while t-SNE maps the view
When structure's what you're hunting, here's what algorithms do
Cluster, reduce, detect what doesn't fit
Intrinsic metrics tell you when you've nailed it

[Outro]
No labels needed when the data speaks its mind
Unsupervised learning leaves no pattern left behind

โ† Unit 2.1 โ€” Supervised Learning | Unit 2.3 โ€” Reinforcement Learning โ†’