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Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow

By : Md. Rezaul Karim
Book Image

Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow

By: Md. Rezaul Karim

Overview of this book

<p>Predictive analytics discovers hidden patterns from structured and unstructured data for automated decision-making in business intelligence.</p> <p>This book will help you build, tune, and deploy predictive models with TensorFlow in three main sections. The first section covers linear algebra, statistics, and probability theory for predictive modeling.</p> <p>The second section covers developing predictive models via supervised (classification and regression) and unsupervised (clustering) algorithms. It then explains how to develop predictive models for NLP and covers reinforcement learning algorithms. Lastly, this section covers developing a factorization machines-based recommendation system.</p> <p>The third section covers deep learning architectures for advanced predictive analytics, including deep neural networks and recurrent neural networks for high-dimensional and sequence data. Finally, convolutional neural networks are used for predictive modeling for emotion recognition, image classification, and sentiment analysis.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered some statistical concepts before getting started with predictive analytics. Some examples are random sampling, hypothesis testing, the chi-square test, correlation, expectation, variance, covariance and Bayes' rule, and so on. In the second part of this chapter, we discussed probability and information theory for predictive analytics. The central objects of probability theory are random variables, stochastic processes, and events, which are also discussed in this chapter.

We have provided some theoretical aspects. However, predictive models are models of the relation between the specific performance of a unit in a sample and one or more known attributes and features of the unit. The objective of the model is to assess the likelihood that a similar unit in a different sample will exhibit the specific performance.

The next chapter describes the main TensorFlow capabilities, motivated by a real-life Titanic example. The second part of the chapter will cover...