Examples of Classification Task Predicting tumor cells as benign or malignant Classifying credit card transactions as legitimate or fraudulent Classifying secondary structures of protein as alpha-helix, beta-sheet, or random coil Categorizing news stories as finance, weather, entertainment, sports, etc C Tan, Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining 4/18/2004© Tan,Steinbach, Kumar Introduction to Data Mining 4/18/2004 ‹#› Examples of Classification Task Predicting tumor cells as benign or malignant Classifying credit card transactions as legitimate or fraudulent Classifying secondary structures of protein as alpha-helix, beta-sheet, or random coil Categorizing news stories as finance, weather, entertainment, sports, etc