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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 training and testing datasets for the baseline model


In this section, we will be generating the training dataset as well as the testing dataset. We will iterate over the files of our dataset and consider all files whose names start with the digit 12 as our test dataset. So, roughly 90% of our dataset is considered the training dataset and 10 % of our dataset is considered the testing dataset. You can refer to the code for this in the following figure:

Figure 5.6: Code snippet for building the training and testing dataset

As you can see, if the filename starts with 12 then we consider the content of those files as the testing dataset. All files apart from these are considered the training dataset. You can find the code at this GitHub link: https://github.com/jalajthanaki/Sentiment_Analysis/blob/master/Baseline_approach.ipynb.