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What is unsupervised learning?

Short answer

Learning from data with no labels, finding structure such as groups or patterns on its own.

For example

Given millions of news articles with no labels, an unsupervised method can sort them into topics like sport, politics and science on its own.

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What is unsupervised learning in simple terms?

Learning from data with no labels, finding structure such as groups or patterns on its own.

What is an example of unsupervised learning?

Given millions of news articles with no labels, an unsupervised method can sort them into topics like sport, politics and science on its own.

Where can I learn about unsupervised learning for free?

AI in Bed explains it in the free lesson "Finding groups: clustering" (Intermediate level, 6 minutes), with no sign-up.