Example Applications of K-Nearest-Neighbors

Why the simple algorithm is more practical than you think

Anthony Baum
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 4, 2023

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My first machine learning algorithm was a K-nearest-neighbors (KNN) model. It makes sense for beginners — intuitive, easy to understand, and you can even implement it without using dedicated packages.

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