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Machine Learning Solutions

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Machine Learning Solutions

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) helps you find hidden insights from your data without the need for explicit programming. This book is your key to solving any kind of ML problem you might come across in your job. You’ll encounter a set of simple to complex problems while building ML models, and you'll not only resolve these problems, but you’ll also learn how to build projects based on each problem, with a practical approach and easy-to-follow examples. The book includes a wide range of applications: from analytics and NLP, to computer vision domains. Some of the applications you will be working on include stock price prediction, a recommendation engine, building a chat-bot, a facial expression recognition system, and many more. The problem examples we cover include identifying the right algorithm for your dataset and use cases, creating and labeling datasets, getting enough clean data to carry out processing, identifying outliers, overftting datasets, hyperparameter tuning, and more. Here, you'll also learn to make more timely and accurate predictions. In addition, you'll deal with more advanced use cases, such as building a gaming bot, building an extractive summarization tool for medical documents, and you'll also tackle the problems faced while building an ML model. By the end of this book, you'll be able to fine-tune your models as per your needs to deliver maximum productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Machine Learning Solutions
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building the baseline approach


In this section, we will start implementing the basic model for the customer segmentation application. Furthermore, we will improve this baseline approach. While implementing, we will cover the necessary concepts, technical aspects, and significance of performing that particular step. You can find the code for the customer-segmentation application at this GitHub link: https://github.com/jalajthanaki/Customer_segmentation

The code related to this chapter is given in a single iPython notebook. You can access the notebook using this GitHub link: https://github.com/jalajthanaki/Customer_segmentation/blob/master/Cust_segmentation_online_retail.ipynb.

Refer to the code given on GitHub because it will help you understand things better. Now let's begin the implementation!

Implementing the baseline approach

In order to implement the customer segmentation model, our implementation will have the following steps:

  1. Data preparation

  2. Exploratory data analysis (EDA)

  3. Generating...