Machine Learning Use Cases - spinningideas/resources GitHub Wiki
Regression / Estimation
The Regression / Estimation technique is used for predicting a continuous value. For example, predicting things like the price of a house based on its characteristics, or to estimate the Co2 emission from a car’s engine.
Classification
A classification technique is used for predicting the class or category of a case, for example, if a cell is benign or malignant, or whether or not a customer will churn.
Clustering
A form of classification whereby similar "Clustering" groups having similar characteristics are identified, for example, can find customers have similar tastes or purchasing behavior (customer segmentation).
Associations
Association technique is used for finding items or events that often co-occur, for example, grocery items that are usually bought together by a particular customer
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly detection is used to discover abnormal and unusual cases, for example, it is used for credit card fraud detection.
Sequence Mining or Prediction
Sequence mining is used for predicting the next event, for instance, the click stream in websites.
Dimension Reduction
Dimension reduction is used to reduce the size of data.
Recommendation Systems
Classify people’s preferences using others who have similar tastes, and recommend new items to them, such as books or movies.
Question/Answer Systems & Natural Language Processing
Process text and answer questions or summarize info or analyze the text itself