Machine Learning for Developers

By : Rodolfo Bonnin, Md Mahmudul Hasan

Machine Learning for Developers

By: Rodolfo Bonnin, Md Mahmudul Hasan

Overview of this book

Most of us have heard about the term Machine Learning, but surprisingly the question frequently asked by developers across the globe is, “How do I get started in Machine Learning?”. One reason could be attributed to the vastness of the subject area because people often get overwhelmed by the abstractness of ML and terms such as regression, supervised learning, probability density function, and so on. This book is a systematic guide teaching you how to implement various Machine Learning techniques and their day-to-day application and development. You will start with the very basics of data and mathematical models in easy-to-follow language that you are familiar with; you will feel at home while implementing the examples. The book will introduce you to various libraries and frameworks used in the world of Machine Learning, and then, without wasting any time, you will get to the point and implement Regression, Clustering, classification, Neural networks, and more with fun examples. As you get to grips with the techniques, you’ll learn to implement those concepts to solve real-world scenarios for ML applications such as image analysis, Natural Language processing, and anomaly detections of time series data. By the end of the book, you will have learned various ML techniques to develop more efficient and intelligent applications.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Free Chapter

Introduction - Machine Learning and Statistical Science

Machine learning in the bigger picture

Tools of the trade–programming language and libraries

Basic mathematical concepts

Summary

The Learning Process

Understanding the problem

Dataset definition and retrieval

Feature engineering

Dataset preprocessing

Model definition

Loss function definition

Model fitting and evaluation

Model implementation and results interpretation

Summary

References

Clustering

Grouping as a human activity

Automating the clustering process

Finding a common center - K-means

Nearest neighbors

K-NN sample implementation

Summary

References

Linear and Logistic Regression

Regression analysis

Linear regression

Data exploration and linear regression in practice

Logistic regression

Summary

References

Neural Networks

History of neural models

Implementing a simple function with a single-layer perceptron

Summary

References

Convolutional Neural Networks

Origin of convolutional neural networks

Deep neural networks

Deploying a deep neural network with Keras

Exploring a convolutional model with Quiver

References

Summary

Recurrent Neural Networks

Solving problems with order — RNNs

LSTM

Univariate time series prediction with energy consumption data

Summary

References

Recent Models and Developments

GANs

Reinforcement learning

Basic RL techniques: Q-learning

References

Summary

Software Installation and Configuration

Linux installation

macOS X environment installation

Windows installation

Summary

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K-NN sample implementation

For this simple implementation of the K-NN method, we will use the NumPy and Matplotlib libraries. Also, as we will be generating a synthetic dataset for better comprehension, we will use the make_blobs method from scikit-learn, which will generate well-defined and separated groups of information so we have a sure reference for our implementation.

Importing the required libraries:

    import numpy as np

    import matplotlib
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    from sklearn.datasets.samples_generator import make_blobs
    %matplotlib inline

So, it's time to generate the data samples for this example. The parameters of make_blobs are the number of samples, the number of features or dimensions, the quantity of centers or groups, whether the samples have to be shuffled, and the standard deviation of the cluster, to control how dispersed...

Machine Learning for Developers

By : Rodolfo Bonnin, Md Mahmudul Hasan

Machine Learning for Developers

By: Rodolfo Bonnin, Md Mahmudul Hasan

Overview of this book

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