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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Second Edition

By : Luis Pedro Coelho, Willi Richert
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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Second Edition

By: Luis Pedro Coelho, Willi Richert

Overview of this book

<p>Using machine learning to gain deeper insights from data is a key skill required by modern application developers and analysts alike. Python is a wonderful language to develop machine learning applications. As a dynamic language, it allows for fast exploration and experimentation. With its excellent collection of open source machine learning libraries you can focus on the task at hand while being able to quickly try out many ideas.</p> <p>This book shows you exactly how to find patterns in your raw data. You will start by brushing up on your Python machine learning knowledge and introducing libraries. You’ll quickly get to grips with serious, real-world projects on datasets, using modeling, creating recommendation systems. Later on, the book covers advanced topics such as topic modeling, basket analysis, and cloud computing. These will extend your abilities and enable you to create large complex systems.</p> <p>With this book, you gain the tools and understanding required to build your own systems, tailored to solve your real-world data analysis problems.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Building Machine Learning Systems with Python Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Amazon Web Services


When you have a lot of data and a lot of computation to be performed, you might start to crave more computing power. Amazon (http://aws.amazon.com) allows you to rent computing power by the hour. Thus, you can access a large amount of computing power without having to precommit by purchasing a large number of machines (including the costs of managing the infrastructure). There are other competitors in this market, but Amazon is the largest player, so we briefly cover it here.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a large set of services. We will focus only on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. This service offers you virtual machines and disk space, which can be allocated and deallocated quickly.

There are three modes of use. First is a reserved mode, whereby you prepay to have cheaper per-hour access, a fixed per-hour rate, and a variable rate, which depends on the overall compute market (when there is less demand, the costs are lower; when there is more demand, the...