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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Third Edition

By : Luis Pedro Coelho, Willi Richert, Matthieu Brucher
Book Image

Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Third Edition

By: Luis Pedro Coelho, Willi Richert, Matthieu Brucher

Overview of this book

Machine learning enables systems to make predictions based on historical data. Python is one of the most popular languages used to develop machine learning applications, thanks to its extensive library support. This updated third edition of Building Machine Learning Systems with Python helps you get up to speed with the latest trends in artificial intelligence (AI). With this guide’s hands-on approach, you’ll learn to build state-of-the-art machine learning models from scratch. Complete with ready-to-implement code and real-world examples, the book starts by introducing the Python ecosystem for machine learning. You’ll then learn best practices for preparing data for analysis and later gain insights into implementing supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques such as classification, regression and clustering. As you progress, you’ll understand how to use Python’s scikit-learn and TensorFlow libraries to build production-ready and end-to-end machine learning system models, and then fine-tune them for high performance. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently train and deploy enterprise-grade machine learning models in Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Getting Started with Python Machine Learning

Multidimensional regression

So far, we have only used a single variable for prediction: the number of rooms per dwelling. This is, obviously, not the best we can do. We will now use all the data we have to fit a model, using multidimensional regression. We now try to predict a single output (the average house price) based on multiple inputs.

The code looks very much like before. In fact, it's even simpler as we can now pass the value of boston.data directly to the fit method:

x = boston.data 
y = boston.target
lr.fit(x, y)

Using all the input variables, the root mean squared error is only 4.7, which corresponds to a coefficient of determination of 0.74 (the code to compute these is the same as the previous example). This is better than what we had before, which indicates that the extra variables did help. But we can no longer easily display the regression line as we did before...