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Machine Learning Solutions

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Machine Learning Solutions

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) helps you find hidden insights from your data without the need for explicit programming. This book is your key to solving any kind of ML problem you might come across in your job. You’ll encounter a set of simple to complex problems while building ML models, and you'll not only resolve these problems, but you’ll also learn how to build projects based on each problem, with a practical approach and easy-to-follow examples. The book includes a wide range of applications: from analytics and NLP, to computer vision domains. Some of the applications you will be working on include stock price prediction, a recommendation engine, building a chat-bot, a facial expression recognition system, and many more. The problem examples we cover include identifying the right algorithm for your dataset and use cases, creating and labeling datasets, getting enough clean data to carry out processing, identifying outliers, overftting datasets, hyperparameter tuning, and more. Here, you'll also learn to make more timely and accurate predictions. In addition, you'll deal with more advanced use cases, such as building a gaming bot, building an extractive summarization tool for medical documents, and you'll also tackle the problems faced while building an ML model. By the end of this book, you'll be able to fine-tune your models as per your needs to deliver maximum productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Machine Learning Solutions
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building the baseline approach


In this section, we will be building the baseline approach. We will use the scraped dataset. The main approach we will be using is TF-IDF (Term-frequency, Inverse Document Frequency) and cosine similarity. Both of these concepts have already been described in Chapter 4, Recommendation System for e-commerce. The name of the pertinent sections are Generating features using TF-IDF and Building the cosine similarity matrix.

As this application has more textual data, we can use TF-IDF, CountVectorizers, cosine similarity, and so on. There are no ratings available for any job. Because of this, we are not using other matrix decomposition methods, such as SVD, or correlation coefficient-based methods, such as Pearsons'R correlation.

For the baseline approach, we are trying to find out the similarity between the resumes, because that is how we will know how similar the user profiles are. By using this fact, we can recommend jobs to all the users who share a similar kind...