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Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

By : Md. Rezaul Karim, Ajay Kumar N
Book Image

Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

By: Md. Rezaul Karim, Ajay Kumar N

Overview of this book

Scala is a highly scalable integration of object-oriented nature and functional programming concepts that make it easy to build scalable and complex big data applications. This book is a handy guide for machine learning developers and data scientists who want to develop and train effective machine learning models in Scala. The book starts with an introduction to machine learning, while covering deep learning and machine learning basics. It then explains how to use Scala-based ML libraries to solve classification and regression problems using linear regression, generalized linear regression, logistic regression, support vector machine, and Naïve Bayes algorithms. It also covers tree-based ensemble techniques for solving both classification and regression problems. Moving ahead, it covers unsupervised learning techniques, such as dimensionality reduction, clustering, and recommender systems. Finally, it provides a brief overview of deep learning using a real-life example in Scala.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about different classical classification algorithms, such as LR, SVM, and NB. Using these algorithms, we predicted whether a customer is likely to cancel their telecommunications subscription or not. We've also discussed what types of data are required to build a successful churn predictive model.

Tree-based and tree ensemble classifiers are really useful and robust, and are widely used for solving both classification and regression tasks. In the next chapter, we will look into developing such classifiers and regressors using tree-based and ensemble techniques such as DT, RF, and GBT, for both classification and regression.