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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

By : Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak
Book Image

Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

By: Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak

Overview of this book

AutoML is designed to automate parts of Machine Learning. Readily available AutoML tools are making data science practitioners’ work easy and are received well in the advanced analytics community. Automated Machine Learning covers the necessary foundation needed to create automated machine learning modules and helps you get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible. In this book, you’ll learn how to automate different tasks in the machine learning pipeline such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. In addition to this, it demonstrates how you can use the available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and create and extend your own custom AutoML components for Machine Learning. By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of the different aspects of automated Machine Learning, and you’ll be able to incorporate automation tasks using practical datasets. You can leverage your learning from this book to implement Machine Learning in your projects and get a step closer to winning various machine learning competitions.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Data transformation

Let's assume we are working on an ML model whose task is to predict employee attrition. Based on our business understanding, we might include some relevant variables that are necessary to create a good model. On the other hand, we might choose to discard some features, such as EmployeeID, which carry no relevant information.

Identifying the ID columns is known as identifier detection. Identifier columns don't add any information to a model in pattern detection and prediction. So, identifier column detection functionality can be a part of the AutoML package and we use it based on the algorithm or a task dependency.

Once we have decided on the fields to use, we may explore the data to transform certain features that aid in the learning process. The transformation adds some experience to the data, which benefits ML models. For example, an employee start...