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MATLAB for Machine Learning

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pavan Kumar Kolluru
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MATLAB for Machine Learning

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pavan Kumar Kolluru

Overview of this book

MATLAB is the language of choice for many researchers and mathematics experts for machine learning. This book will help you build a foundation in machine learning using MATLAB for beginners. You’ll start by getting your system ready with t he MATLAB environment for machine learning and you’ll see how to easily interact with the Matlab workspace. We’ll then move on to data cleansing, mining and analyzing various data types in machine learning and you’ll see how to display data values on a plot. Next, you’ll get to know about the different types of regression techniques and how to apply them to your data using the MATLAB functions. You’ll understand the basic concepts of neural networks and perform data fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering analysis. Finally, you’ll explore feature selection and extraction techniques for dimensionality reduction for performance improvement. At the end of the book, you will learn to put it all together into real-world cases covering major machine learning algorithms and be comfortable in performing machine learning with MATLAB.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Improving the Performance of the Machine Learning Model - Dimensionality Reduction

Chapter 2. Importing and Organizing Data in MATLAB

Today, the amount of data generated is enormous; smartphones, credit cards, televisions, computers, home appliances, sensors, domotic systems, public and private transport, and so on are just a few examples of devices that generate data seamlessly. Such data is stored and then used for various purposes. One of these is data analysis using machine learning algorithms.

In the previous chapter, we analyzed how to build machine learning models step by step. At the start of the workflow, there is organization of data. Indeed, after collecting data, we typically need to import and preprocess. This first step is crucial for the proper functioning of the model that we will build and then for the final result.

In this chapter, we will have a look at how to import and organize our data in MATLAB. To do this, you should familiarize yourself with the MATLAB workspace in order to make the operations as simple as possible. Then we will analyze the different...