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Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Atul Tripathi
Book Image

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

Dimension reduction methods - Delta's Aircraft Fleet


Fleet planning is a part of the strategic planning process for any airline company. Fleet is the total number of aircraft that an airline operates, as well as the specific aircraft types that comprise the total fleet. Airline selection criteria for aircraft acquisition are based on technical/performance characteristics, economic and financial impact, environmental regulations and constraints, marketing considerations, and political realities. Fleet composition is a critical long-term strategic decision for an airline company. Each aircraft type has different technical performance characteristics, for example, the capacity to carry the payload over a maximum flight distance or range. It affects financial position, operating costs, and especially the ability to serve specific routes.

Getting ready

In order to perform dimension reduction we shall be using a dataset collected on Delta Airlines Aircraft Fleet.

Step 1 - collecting and describing...