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Python: Deeper Insights into Machine Learning

By : David Julian, Sebastian Raschka, John Hearty
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Python: Deeper Insights into Machine Learning

By: David Julian, Sebastian Raschka, John Hearty

Overview of this book

Machine learning and predictive analytics are becoming one of the key strategies for unlocking growth in a challenging contemporary marketplace. It is one of the fastest growing trends in modern computing, and everyone wants to get into the field of machine learning. In order to obtain sufficient recognition in this field, one must be able to understand and design a machine learning system that serves the needs of a project. The idea is to prepare a learning path that will help you to tackle the real-world complexities of modern machine learning with innovative and cutting-edge techniques. Also, it will give you a solid foundation in the machine learning design process, and enable you to build customized machine learning models to solve unique problems. The course begins with getting your Python fundamentals nailed down. It focuses on answering the right questions that cove a wide range of powerful Python libraries, including scikit-learn Theano and Keras.After getting familiar with Python core concepts, it’s time to dive into the field of data science. You will further gain a solid foundation on the machine learning design and also learn to customize models for solving problems. At a later stage, you will get a grip on more advanced techniques and acquire a broad set of powerful skills in the area of feature selection and feature engineering.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
4
A. Biblography
5
Index

Chapter 1. Thinking in Machine Learning

Machine learning systems have a profound and exciting ability to provide important insights to an amazing variety of applications; from groundbreaking and life-saving medical research, to discovering fundamental physical aspects of our universe. From providing us with better, cleaner food, to web analytics and economic modeling. In fact, there are hardly any areas of our lives that have not been touched by this technology in some way. With an expanding Internet of Things, there is a staggering amount of data being generated, and it is clear that intelligent systems are changing societies in quite dramatic ways. With open source tools, such as those provided by Python and its libraries, and the increasing open source knowledge base represented by the Web, it is relatively easy and cheap to learn and apply this technology in new and exciting ways. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Human interface
  • Design principles
  • Models
  • Unified...