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Numerical Computing with Python

By : Pratap Dangeti, Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim, Theodore Petrou
Book Image

Numerical Computing with Python

By: Pratap Dangeti, Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim, Theodore Petrou

Overview of this book

Data mining, or parsing the data to extract useful insights, is a niche skill that can transform your career as a data scientist Python is a flexible programming language that is equipped with a strong suite of libraries and toolkits, and gives you the perfect platform to sift through your data and mine the insights you seek. This Learning Path is designed to familiarize you with the Python libraries and the underlying statistics that you need to get comfortable with data mining. You will learn how to use Pandas, Python's popular library to analyze different kinds of data, and leverage the power of Matplotlib to generate appealing and impressive visualizations for the insights you have derived. You will also explore different machine learning techniques and statistics that enable you to build powerful predictive models. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have the perfect foundation to take your data mining skills to the next level and set yourself on the path to become a sought-after data science professional. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Statistics for Machine Learning by Pratap Dangeti • Matplotlib 2.x By Example by Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim • Pandas Cookbook by Theodore Petrou
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Contributors
About Packt
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned about KNN and Naive Bayes techniques, which require somewhat a little less computational power. KNN, in fact, is called a lazy learner, as it does not learn anything apart from comparing with training data points to classify them into class. Also, you have seen how to tune the k-value using grid search technique. Whereas explanation has been provided for Naive Bayes classifier, NLP examples have been provided with all the famous NLP processing techniques to give you a flavor of this field in a very crisp manner. Though in text processing, either Naive Bayes or SVM techniques could be used as these two techniques can handle data with high dimensionality, which is very relevant in NLP, as the number of word vectors is relatively high in dimensions and sparse at the same time.

In the next chapter, we will be covering the details of unsupervised learning, more precisely, clustering and principal component analysis models.