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Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Atul Tripathi
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Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Atul Tripathi

Overview of this book

Machine learning has become the new black. The challenge in today’s world is the explosion of data from existing legacy data and incoming new structured and unstructured data. The complexity of discovering, understanding, performing analysis, and predicting outcomes on the data using machine learning algorithms is a challenge. This cookbook will help solve everyday challenges you face as a data scientist. The application of various data science techniques and on multiple data sets based on real-world challenges you face will help you appreciate a variety of techniques used in various situations. The first half of the book provides recipes on fairly complex machine-learning systems, where you’ll learn to explore new areas of applications of machine learning and improve its efficiency. That includes recipes on classifications, neural networks, unsupervised and supervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and more. The second half of the book focuses on three different machine learning case studies, all based on real-world data, and offers solutions and solves specific machine-learning issues in each one.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Practical Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Case Study - Forecast of Electricity Consumption

Local regression - understanding drought warnings and impact


Drought is a natural hazard which is measured and characterized by lower-than-expected or lower-than-normal rainfall. This condition, when prolonged over a longer-than-normal time period is insufficient to meet the demands of human activities and hazardous to the environment. Drought is a temporary phenomenon. Three main distinguishing features of droughts are intensity, duration, and spatial coverage. A drought early warning system can help to identify the climatic changes, understand water supply trends, and prepare for upcoming emergencies. The drought warning can help decision-makers take appropriate measures to face the upcoming challenge. They can then measure the severity of the impact and understand the underlying causes of vulnerability to reduce risk for a particular location and for a specific group of people or economic sector.

Getting ready

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Step 1 - collecting and describing data

The...