Microsoft Azure Machine Learning: Algorithm Cheat Sheet

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MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION
CLUSTERING
Categories >2 No Yes Select one:
No Two categories or Prefer classifier built Prefer explainable class Multiclass decision forest
K-means Predict future more than two? from >1 two-class boundaries? Muilticlass decision jungle
data points? ANOMALY DETECTION classifiers?
Yes Yes Yes 2 Yes No If you prefer performance
over training time, and all
One-class <100K
features are numerical, try:
SVM data points
Predict or >100 One of the One-v-All Multiclass logistic Multiclass neural
No features?
categories or categories rare? multiclass regression network
PCA-based
values?
anomaly
Values
No
REGRESSION Choose a
two-class
Yes classifier
Ordinal Data in rank-ordered categories?
regression No TWO-CLASS CLASSIFICATION

Yes Yes
Poisson Predict event counts? <100K data points or >100 features Two-class SVM
regression
No No
If the accuracy is good but
you want it faster, try:
Distribution Speed
Fast forest Predict single values or a distribution? Prefer speed or accuracy? Two-class averaged Locally Deep SVM
quantile perception
Single values Accuracy
regression

Close enough No
Linear Linear approximation Prefer explainable class boundaries? Two-class logistic regression
regression okay?
No Yes If you prefer performance over If your data points are
training time, and all features statistically independant,
are numerical, try: you can try:
Yes Select one:
Prefer explainable class Decision forest Two-class decision forest Two-class neural network Two-class Bayes point
If your data points
boundaries regression Two-class decision jungle machine
are statistically No If you have overlapping
independent, try: features, try: If you have overlapping features, try:
This cheat sheet helps you choose the best Azure Machine Learning Studio
Bayesian linear Neural network Boosted decision Two-class boosted algorithm for your predictive analytics solution. Your decision is driven by
regression regression tree regression decision tree both the nature of your data and the question youre trying to answer.

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