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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

Analyzing stock market data using Hidden Markov Models


Let's analyze stock market data using Hidden Markov Models. Stock market data is a good example of time series data where the data is organized in the form of dates. In the dataset that we will use, we can see how the stock values of various companies fluctuate over time. Hidden Markov Models are generative models that are used to analyze such time series data. In this recipe, we will use these models to analyze stock values.

How to do it…

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

    import datetime
    
    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from matplotlib.finance import quotes_historical_yahoo_ochl
    from hmmlearn.hmm import GaussianHMM
  2. Get the stock quotes from Yahoo finance. There is a method available in matplotlib to load this directly:

    # Get quotes from Yahoo finance
    quotes = quotes_historical_yahoo_ochl("INTC", 
            datetime.date(1994, 4, 5), datetime.date(2015, 7, 3))
  3. There are six values in each quote....