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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

2 (1)
By: Anshul Joshi

Overview of this book

Julia is a fast and high performing language that's perfectly suited to data science with a mature package ecosystem and is now feature complete. It is a good tool for a data science practitioner. There was a famous post at Harvard Business Review that Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. (https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century). This book will help you get familiarised with Julia's rich ecosystem, which is continuously evolving, allowing you to stay on top of your game. This book contains the essentials of data science and gives a high-level overview of advanced statistics and techniques. You will dive in and will work on generating insights by performing inferential statistics, and will reveal hidden patterns and trends using data mining. This has the practical coverage of statistics and machine learning. You will develop knowledge to build statistical models and machine learning systems in Julia with attractive visualizations. You will then delve into the world of Deep learning in Julia and will understand the framework, Mocha.jl with which you can create artificial neural networks and implement deep learning. This book addresses the challenges of real-world data science problems, including data cleaning, data preparation, inferential statistics, statistical modeling, building high-performance machine learning systems and creating effective visualizations using Julia.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Julia for Data Science
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Random forests


Random forests were developed by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler. Their strength in the field of machine learning has been shown nicely in a blog entry at Strata 2012: "Ensembles of decision trees (often known as random forests) have been the most successful general-purpose algorithm in modern times", as they "automatically identify the structure, interactions, and relationships in the data".

Moreover, it has been noticed that "most Kaggle solutions have no less than one top entry that vigorously utilizes this methodology". Random forests additionally have been the preferred algorithm for recognizing the body part in Microsoft's Kinect, which is a movement detecting information gadgets for Xbox consoles and Windows PCs.

Random forests comprises of a group of decision trees. We will consequently begin to analyze decision trees.

A decision tree, as discussed previously, is a tree-like chart where on each node there is a choice, in view of one single feature. Given an arrangement of...