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  "id": 21281,
  "title": "Fundamental Question...",
  "url": "/competitions/facebook-v-predicting-check-ins/discussion/21281",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-05-28T13:22:57.580Z",
  "votes": -3,
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  "content": "<p>I have a very basic question and I am not sure if this is the right forum. My apologies if I have asked an inappropiate question.</p>\n\n<p>Is this machine learning problem.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Classification problem\n                OR</li>\n<li>Clustering problem.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I am torn between the two and wanted to get some thoughts.</p>",
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      "id": "121653",
      "postDate": "05/28/2016 13:22:57",
      "content": "<p>I have a very basic question and I am not sure if this is the right forum. My apologies if I have asked an inappropiate question.</p>\n\n<p>Is this machine learning problem.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Classification problem\n                OR</li>\n<li>Clustering problem.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I am torn between the two and wanted to get some thoughts.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have a very basic question and I am not sure if this is the right forum. My apologies if I have asked an inappropiate question.\r\n\r\nIs this machine learning problem.\r\n\r\n- Classification problem\r\n                    OR\r\n- Clustering problem.\r\n\r\nI am torn between the two and wanted to get some thoughts.",
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      "id": "121665",
      "postDate": "05/28/2016 14:53:05",
      "content": "<p>Classification</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>In machine learning and statistics, classification is the problem of\n  identifying to which of a set of categories (sub-populations) a new\n  observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data containing\n  observations (or instances) <strong>whose category membership is known</strong>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>In clustering you don't have labeled data.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Classification\r\n\r\n> In machine learning and statistics, classification is the problem of\r\n> identifying to which of a set of categories (sub-populations) a new\r\n> observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data containing\r\n> observations (or instances) **whose category membership is known**.\r\n\r\nIn clustering you don't have labeled data.",
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      "id": "121766",
      "postDate": "05/29/2016 15:26:33",
      "content": "<p>with the x, y coordinates and maybe the accuracy being available does that mean it is a classification problem </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "with the x, y coordinates and maybe the accuracy being available does that mean it is a classification problem",
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      "id": 121665,
      "author_name": "radustoicescu",
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      "post_date": "05/28/2016 14:53:05",
      "content": "<p>Classification</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>In machine learning and statistics, classification is the problem of\n  identifying to which of a set of categories (sub-populations) a new\n  observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data containing\n  observations (or instances) <strong>whose category membership is known</strong>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>In clustering you don't have labeled data.</p>",
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      "id": 121766,
      "author_name": "raghunemani",
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      "post_date": "05/29/2016 15:26:33",
      "content": "<p>with the x, y coordinates and maybe the accuracy being available does that mean it is a classification problem </p>",
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    "121653": "I have a very basic question and I am not sure if this is the right forum. My apologies if I have asked an inappropiate question.\r\n\r\nIs this machine learning problem.\r\n\r\n- Classification problem\r\n                    OR\r\n- Clustering problem.\r\n\r\nI am torn between the two and wanted to get some thoughts.",
    "121665": "Classification\r\n\r\n> In machine learning and statistics, classification is the problem of\r\n> identifying to which of a set of categories (sub-populations) a new\r\n> observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data containing\r\n> observations (or instances) **whose category membership is known**.\r\n\r\nIn clustering you don't have labeled data.",
    "121766": "with the x, y coordinates and maybe the accuracy being available does that mean it is a classification problem"
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