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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We’ll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you’ll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms. You’ll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Python Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Transforming data into the time series format


We will start by understanding how to convert a sequence of observations into time series data and visualize it. We will use a library called pandas to analyze time series data. Make sure that you install pandas before you proceed further. You can find the installation instructions at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/install.html.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new Python file, and import the following packages:

    import numpy as np
    import pandas as pd
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  2. Let's define a function to read an input file that converts sequential observations into time-indexed data:

    def convert_data_to_timeseries(input_file, column, verbose=False):
  3. We will use a text file consisting of four columns. The first column denotes the year, the second column denotes the month, and the third and fourth columns denote data. Let's load this into a NumPy array:

        # Load the input file
        data = np.loadtxt(input_file, delimiter=',')
  4. As this is arranged...