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Nearest Neighbors

Explore how to use the nearest neighbors algorithm in scikit-learn to find the closest similar data points for a given observation. Understand how to fit the NearestNeighbors object, specify the number of neighbors, and interpret the returned neighbors and distances to enhance clustering and data analysis skills.

Chapter Goals:

  • Learn how to find the nearest neighbors for a data observation

A. Finding the nearest neighbors

In Chapter 1, we mentioned that clustering is a method for grouping together similar data observations. Another method for finding similar data observations is the nearest neighbors approach. With this ...