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Machine Learning With Go

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Machine Learning With Go

Overview of this book

The mission of this book is to turn readers into productive, innovative data analysts who leverage Go to build robust and valuable applications. To this end, the book clearly introduces the technical aspects of building predictive models in Go, but it also helps the reader understand how machine learning workflows are being applied in real-world scenarios. Machine Learning with Go shows readers how to be productive in machine learning while also producing applications that maintain a high level of integrity. It also gives readers patterns to overcome challenges that are often encountered when trying to integrate machine learning in an engineering organization. The readers will begin by gaining a solid understanding of how to gather, organize, and parse real-work data from a variety of sources. Readers will then develop a solid statistical toolkit that will allow them to quickly understand gain intuition about the content of a dataset. Finally, the readers will gain hands-on experience implementing essential machine learning techniques (regression, classification, clustering, and so on) with the relevant Go packages. Finally, the reader will have a solid machine learning mindset and a powerful Go toolkit of techniques, packages, and example implementations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Understanding time series jargon

You are probably noticing by this time in the book that each set of machine learning techniques has an associated set of jargon, and time series is no different.

Here is an explanation of some of this jargon that will be utilized throughout the rest of the chapter:

  • Time, datetime, or timestamp: This property is the temporal element of each pairing in our time series. This could be simply a time or it could be a combination of date and time (sometimes referred to as datetime or timestamp). It might also include time zone.
  • Observation, measurement, signal, or random variable: This is the property that we are trying to forecast and/or otherwise analyze as a function of time.
  • Seasonality: A time series, such as the time series of air passenger data, may exhibit changes that correspond to seasons (weeks, months, years, and so on). Time series that...