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Data Science Algorithms in a Week - Second Edition

By : David Natingga
Book Image

Data Science Algorithms in a Week - Second Edition

By: David Natingga

Overview of this book

Machine learning applications are highly automated and self-modifying, and continue to improve over time with minimal human intervention, as they learn from the trained data. To address the complex nature of various real-world data problems, specialized machine learning algorithms have been developed. Through algorithmic and statistical analysis, these models can be leveraged to gain new knowledge from existing data as well. Data Science Algorithms in a Week addresses all problems related to accurate and efficient data classification and prediction. Over the course of seven days, you will be introduced to seven algorithms, along with exercises that will help you understand different aspects of machine learning. You will see how to pre-cluster your data to optimize and classify it for large datasets. This book also guides you in predicting data based on existing trends in your dataset. This book covers algorithms such as k-nearest neighbors, Naive Bayes, decision trees, random forest, k-means, regression, and time-series analysis. By the end of this book, you will understand how to choose machine learning algorithms for clustering, classification, and regression and know which is best suited for your problem
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Glossary of Algorithms and Methods in Data Science
Index

Playing chess – dependent events


Suppose that we would like to find out whether our friend would like to play chess with us in a park in Cambridge, UK. But, this time, we are given different input data:

Temperature

Wind

Season

Play

Cold

Strong

Winter

No

Warm

Strong

Autumn

No

Warm

None

Summer

Yes

Hot

None

Spring

No

Hot

Breeze

Autumn

Yes

Warm

Breeze

Spring

Yes

Cold

Breeze

Winter

No

Cold

None

Spring

Yes

Hot

Strong

Summer

Yes

Warm

None

Autumn

Yes

Warm

Strong

Spring

?

 

So, now we are wondering how the answer to whether our friend would like to play in a park in Cambridge, UK, will change with this different data in regard to the Temperature being Warm, the Wind being Strong, and the Season being Spring.

Analysis

We may be tempted to use Bayesian probability to calculate the probability of our friend playing chess with us in the park. However, we should be careful, and ask whether the probability of the events are independent of each other.

In the previous example, where we used Bayesian probability, we were given the probability variables Temperature...