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Mastering Predictive Analytics with scikit-learn and TensorFlow

By : Alvaro Fuentes
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Mastering Predictive Analytics with scikit-learn and TensorFlow

By: Alvaro Fuentes

Overview of this book

Python is a programming language that provides a wide range of features that can be used in the field of data science. Mastering Predictive Analytics with scikit-learn and TensorFlow covers various implementations of ensemble methods, how they are used with real-world datasets, and how they improve prediction accuracy in classification and regression problems. This book starts with ensemble methods and their features. You will see that scikit-learn provides tools for choosing hyperparameters for models. As you make your way through the book, you will cover the nitty-gritty of predictive analytics and explore its features and characteristics. You will also be introduced to artificial neural networks and TensorFlow, and how it is used to create neural networks. In the final chapter, you will explore factors such as computational power, along with improvement methods and software enhancements for efficient predictive analytics. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in using deep neural networks to solve common problems in big data analysis.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about feature selection methods, how to distinguish between useful features, and features that are not likely to be helpful in prediction. We talked about dimensionality reduction and we learned how to perform PCA in scikit-learn. We also talked about feature engineering, and we tried to come up with new features in the datasets that we have been using so far. Finally, we tried to improve our credit card model by coming up with new features, and by working with all of the techniques that we learned in this chapter. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter.

In the next chapter, we will learn about artificial neural networks and how the tensorflow library is used when working with neural networks and artificial intelligence.