Databricks Updated Databricks-Certified-Professional-Data-Scientist Exam Questions and Answers by yasin

When you are applying clustering technique and you find that there are quite a huge number of variables are available. Then it is better the find the co-relation among the variables and consider only one or two variables from the highly co-related variables. Because highly co-related variable will have the same effect, while creating the cluster. We can use scatter plot matrix among the variables to find the co-relation.

You can also combine several variables into a single variable. For example if you have two values in the dataset like Asset and Debt than by combining these two values like Debt to Asset ratio and use it while creating the cluster.

We address two cases of the target variable. The first case occurs when the target variable can take only nominal values: true or false; reptile, fish: mammal, amphibian, plant, fungi. The second case of classification occurs when the target variable can take an infinite number of numeric values, such as 0.100, 42.001, 1000.743, .... This case is called regression.

Regression algorithms are usually employed when the data points are inherently numerical variables (such as the dimensions of an object the weight of a person, or the temperature in the atmosphere) but unlike Bayesian algorithms, they're not very good for categorical data (such as employee status or credit score description).