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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

By : Boštjan Kaluža, Jennifer L. Reese, Krishna Choppella, Richard M. Reese, Uday Kamath
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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

By: Boštjan Kaluža, Jennifer L. Reese, Krishna Choppella, Richard M. Reese, Uday Kamath

Overview of this book

Machine Learning is one of the core area of Artificial Intelligence where computers are trained to self-learn, grow, change, and develop on their own without being explicitly programmed. In this course, we cover how Java is employed to build powerful machine learning models to address the problems being faced in the world of Data Science. The course demonstrates complex data extraction and statistical analysis techniques supported by Java, applying various machine learning methods, exploring machine learning sub-domains, and exploring real-world use cases such as recommendation systems, fraud detection, natural language processing, and more, using Java programming. The course begins with an introduction to data science and basic data science tasks such as data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization. The next section has a detailed overview of statistical techniques, covering machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. The next couple of sections cover applying machine learning methods using Java to a variety of chores including classifying, predicting, forecasting, market basket analysis, clustering stream learning, active learning, semi-supervised learning, probabilistic graph modeling, text mining, and deep learning. The last section highlights real-world test cases such as performing activity recognition, developing image recognition, text classification, and anomaly detection. The course includes premium content from three of our most popular books: [*]Java for Data Science [*]Machine Learning in Java [*]Mastering Java Machine Learning On completion of this course, you will understand various machine learning techniques, different machine learning java algorithms you can use to gain data insights, building data models to analyze larger complex data sets, and incubating applications using Java and machine learning algorithms in the field of artificial intelligence.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Chapter 7. Fraud and Anomaly Detection

Outlier detection is used to identify exceptions, rare events, or other anomalous situations. Such anomalies may be hard-to-find needles in a haystack, but their consequences may nonetheless be quite dramatic, for instance, credit card fraud detection, identifying network intrusion, faults in a manufacturing processes, clinical trials, voting activities, and criminal activities in e-commerce. Therefore, discovered anomalies represent high value when they are found or high costs if they are not found. Applying machine learning to outlier detection problems brings new insight and better detection of outlier events. Machine learning can take into account many disparate sources of data and find correlations that are too obscure for human analysis to identify.

Take the example of e-commerce fraud detection. With machine learning algorithm in place, the purchaser's online behavior, that is, website browsing history, becomes a part of the fraud...