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Go Machine Learning Projects

By : Xuanyi Chew
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Go Machine Learning Projects

By: Xuanyi Chew

Overview of this book

Go is the perfect language for machine learning; it helps to clearly describe complex algorithms, and also helps developers to understand how to run efficient optimized code. This book will teach you how to implement machine learning in Go to make programs that are easy to deploy and code that is not only easy to understand and debug, but also to have its performance measured. The book begins by guiding you through setting up your machine learning environment with Go libraries and capabilities. You will then plunge into regression analysis of a real-life house pricing dataset and build a classification model in Go to classify emails as spam or ham. Using Gonum, Gorgonia, and STL, you will explore time series analysis along with decomposition and clean up your personal Twitter timeline by clustering tweets. In addition to this, you will learn how to recognize handwriting using neural networks and convolutional neural networks. Lastly, you'll learn how to choose the most appropriate machine learning algorithms to use for your projects with the help of a facial detection project. By the end of this book, you will have developed a solid machine learning mindset, a strong hold on the powerful Go toolkit, and a sound understanding of the practical implementations of machine learning algorithms in real-world projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

The project

The project we're embarking on is the one as mentioned in the opening paragraphs. The dataset which we are going to classify is a collection of handwritten numbers originally collected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and later modified by Yann LeCun's team. Our goal is to classify the handwritten numbers as either one of 0, 1, 2... 9.

We're going to build a basic neural network with the understanding that neural networks are applied linear algebra, and we'll be using Gorgonia for this and the next chapter.

To install Gorgonia, simply run go get -u gorgonia.org/gorgonia and go get -u gorgonia.org/tensor.

Gorgonia

Gorgonia is a library that facilitates efficient mathematical...