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Machine Learning With Go

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Machine Learning With Go

Overview of this book

The mission of this book is to turn readers into productive, innovative data analysts who leverage Go to build robust and valuable applications. To this end, the book clearly introduces the technical aspects of building predictive models in Go, but it also helps the reader understand how machine learning workflows are being applied in real-world scenarios. Machine Learning with Go shows readers how to be productive in machine learning while also producing applications that maintain a high level of integrity. It also gives readers patterns to overcome challenges that are often encountered when trying to integrate machine learning in an engineering organization. The readers will begin by gaining a solid understanding of how to gather, organize, and parse real-work data from a variety of sources. Readers will then develop a solid statistical toolkit that will allow them to quickly understand gain intuition about the content of a dataset. Finally, the readers will gain hands-on experience implementing essential machine learning techniques (regression, classification, clustering, and so on) with the relevant Go packages. Finally, the reader will have a solid machine learning mindset and a powerful Go toolkit of techniques, packages, and example implementations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Auto-regressive moving averages and other time series models

The model that we tried earlier was a relatively simple pure auto-regressive model. However, we are not stuck with using auto-regression or pure auto-regression alone in our time series models. As with other classes of machine learning models covered in this book, there is a whole zoo of time series techniques, and we cannot cover them all here. However, we did want to mention a few notable techniques that you could explore as you follow up on this material.

Auto-regressive models are often combined with models called moving average models. When these are combined, they are often referred to as auto-regressive moving average (ARMA) or auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models. The moving average part of ARMA/ARIMA models allows you to capture the effects of things like white noise or other error terms...