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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We’ll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you’ll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms. You’ll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Python Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing Kernel Principal Components Analysis


PCA is good at reducing the number of dimensions, but it works in a linear manner. If the data is not organized in a linear fashion, PCA fails to do the required job. This is where Kernel PCA comes into the picture. You can learn more about it at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/classnotes/papers_class/Kernel-PCA.pdf. Let's see how to perform Kernel PCA on the input data and compare it to how PCA performs on the same data.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new Python file, and import the following packages:

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    
    from sklearn.decomposition import PCA, KernelPCA
    from sklearn.datasets import make_circles
  2. Define the seed value for the random number generator. This is needed to generate the data samples for analysis:

    # Set the seed for random number generator
    np.random.seed(7)
  3. Generate data that is distributed in concentric circles to demonstrate how PCA doesn't work in this case:

    # Generate samples
    X, y = make_circles...