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Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Atul Tripathi
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Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Atul Tripathi

Overview of this book

Machine learning has become the new black. The challenge in today’s world is the explosion of data from existing legacy data and incoming new structured and unstructured data. The complexity of discovering, understanding, performing analysis, and predicting outcomes on the data using machine learning algorithms is a challenge. This cookbook will help solve everyday challenges you face as a data scientist. The application of various data science techniques and on multiple data sets based on real-world challenges you face will help you appreciate a variety of techniques used in various situations. The first half of the book provides recipes on fairly complex machine-learning systems, where you’ll learn to explore new areas of applications of machine learning and improve its efficiency. That includes recipes on classifications, neural networks, unsupervised and supervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and more. The second half of the book focuses on three different machine learning case studies, all based on real-world data, and offers solutions and solves specific machine-learning issues in each one.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Practical Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
14
Case Study - Forecast of Electricity Consumption

Hierarchical clustering - gene clustering


The ability to gather genome-wide expression data is a computationally complex task. The human brain with its limitations cannot solve the problem. However, data can be fine-grained to an easily comprehensible level by subdividing the genes into a smaller number of categories and then analyzing them.

The goal of clustering is to subdivide a set of genes in such a way that similar items fall into the same cluster, whereas dissimilar items fall into different clusters. The important questions to be considered are decisions on similarity and usage for the items that have been clustered. Here we shall explore clustering genes and samples using the photoreceptor time series for the two genotypes.

Getting ready

In order to perform Hierarchical clustering, we shall be using a dataset collected on mice.

Step 1 - collecting and describing data

The datasets titled GSE4051_data and GSE4051_design shall be used. These are available in the CSV format titled GSE4051_data...