Homo sapiens — the KNN classifier

Homo sapiens — the KNN classifier

How our decisions are governed by the KNN approach

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The K-nearest neighbours (KNN) method is probably the most intuitive classifier algorithm, and all of us actually use it on a daily basis. In short, it can be described by well known proverbs such as

Birds of a feather flock together

or

You are who you associate with

This post will briefly outline how the KNN classifier work, and …

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