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Machine Learning For Dummies

Machine Learning For Dummies

By : John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron
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Machine Learning For Dummies

Machine Learning For Dummies

By: John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron

Overview of this book

Machine learning can be a mind-boggling concept for the masses, but those who are in the trenches of computer programming know just how invaluable it is. Without machine learning, fraud detection, web search results, real-time ads on web pages, credit scoring, automation, and email spam filtering wouldn’t be possible, and this is only showcasing just a few of its capabilities. Written by two data science experts, Machine Learning For Dummies offers a much-needed entry point for anyone looking to use machine learning to accomplish practical tasks. In the initial chapters, the book introduces you to the world of machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and will prepare you to use R and Python for machine learning tasks. Next, you’ll learn how to use math in machine learning and get started with linear models and neural networks. In the final chapters, you’ll process images and text, and discover packages and techniques to improve your machine learning models. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to understand and implement machine learning seamlessly.
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
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Part 1: Introducing How Machines Learn
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Part 2: Preparing Your Learning Tools
12
Part 3: Getting Started with the Math Basics
17
Part 4: Learning from Smart and Big Data
24
Part 5: Applying Learning to Real Problems
28
Part 6: The Part of Tens
31
About the Author
32
Advertisement Page
33
Connect with Dummies
34
End User License Agreement

Downloading the Datasets and Example Code

This book is about using Python to perform machine learning tasks. Of course, you can spend all your time creating the example code from scratch, debugging it, and only then discovering how it relates to machine learning, or you can take the easy way and download the prewritten code at http://www.dummies.com/extras/machinelearning so that you can get right to work. Likewise, creating datasets large enough for machine learning purposes would take quite a while. Fortunately, you can access standardized, precreated datasets quite easily using features provided in some of the data science libraries (which also work just fine for machine learning). The following sections help you download and use the example code and datasets so that you can save time and get right to work with data science–specific tasks.

Using Jupyter Notebook

To make working with the relatively complex code in this book easier, you use Jupyter Notebook. This interface lets...

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