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Machine Learning with scikit-learn Quick Start Guide

By : Kevin Jolly
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Machine Learning with scikit-learn Quick Start Guide

By: Kevin Jolly

Overview of this book

Scikit-learn is a robust machine learning library for the Python programming language. It provides a set of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. This book is the easiest way to learn how to deploy, optimize, and evaluate all of the important machine learning algorithms that scikit-learn provides. This book teaches you how to use scikit-learn for machine learning. You will start by setting up and configuring your machine learning environment with scikit-learn. To put scikit-learn to use, you will learn how to implement various supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. You will learn classification, regression, and clustering techniques to work with different types of datasets and train your models. Finally, you will learn about an effective pipeline to help you build a machine learning project from scratch. By the end of this book, you will be confident in building your own machine learning models for accurate predictions.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about how the linear regression algorithm works internally, through key concepts such as residuals and ordinary least squares. You also learned how to visualize a simple linear regression model in two dimensions.

We also covered implementing the linear regression model to predict the amount of a mobile transaction, along with scaling your data in an effective pipeline, to bring potential improvements to your performance.

Finally, you learned how to optimize your model by using the concept of regularization, in the form of ridge and lasso regression.