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Machine Learning Solutions

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Machine Learning Solutions

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) helps you find hidden insights from your data without the need for explicit programming. This book is your key to solving any kind of ML problem you might come across in your job. You’ll encounter a set of simple to complex problems while building ML models, and you'll not only resolve these problems, but you’ll also learn how to build projects based on each problem, with a practical approach and easy-to-follow examples. The book includes a wide range of applications: from analytics and NLP, to computer vision domains. Some of the applications you will be working on include stock price prediction, a recommendation engine, building a chat-bot, a facial expression recognition system, and many more. The problem examples we cover include identifying the right algorithm for your dataset and use cases, creating and labeling datasets, getting enough clean data to carry out processing, identifying outliers, overftting datasets, hyperparameter tuning, and more. Here, you'll also learn to make more timely and accurate predictions. In addition, you'll deal with more advanced use cases, such as building a gaming bot, building an extractive summarization tool for medical documents, and you'll also tackle the problems faced while building an ML model. By the end of this book, you'll be able to fine-tune your models as per your needs to deliver maximum productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Machine Learning Solutions
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing the problem statement


As you know, in this chapter, we are trying to build a recommendation system. A domain that mainly uses the recommendation system is e-commerce. So, in our basic version of the recommendation engine specifically, we will be building an algorithm that can suggest the name of the products based on the category of the product. Once we know the basic concepts of the recommendation engine, we will build a recommendation engine that can suggest books in the same way as the Amazon website.

We will be building three versions of the recommendation algorithm. The baseline approach is simple but intuitive so that readers can learn what exactly the recommendation algorithm is capable of doing. Baseline is easy to implement. In the second and third approach, we will be building the book recommendation engine using ML algorithms.

Let's look at the basic methods or approaches that are used to build the recommendation system. There are two main approaches, which you can find...