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Machine Learning Quick Reference

By : Rahul Kumar
Book Image

Machine Learning Quick Reference

By: Rahul Kumar

Overview of this book

Machine learning makes it possible to learn about the unknowns and gain hidden insights into your datasets by mastering many tools and techniques. This book guides you to do just that in a very compact manner. After giving a quick overview of what machine learning is all about, Machine Learning Quick Reference jumps right into its core algorithms and demonstrates how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. From model evaluation to optimizing their performance, this book will introduce you to the best practices in machine learning. Furthermore, you will also look at the more advanced aspects such as training neural networks and work with different kinds of data, such as text, time-series, and sequential data. Advanced methods and techniques such as causal inference, deep Gaussian processes, and more are also covered. By the end of this book, you will be able to train fast, accurate machine learning models at your fingertips, which you can easily use as a point of reference.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Temporal and Sequential Pattern Discovery

Many of us have visited retail shops such as Reliance and Walmart for our household needs. Let's say that we are planning to buy an iPhoneX from Reliance Digital. What we would typically do is search for the model by visiting the mobile section of the store, and then select the product and head toward the billing counter.

But, in today's world, the goal of the organization is to increase revenue. Can this be done by pitching just one product at a time to the customer? The answer is a clear no. Hence, organizations began mining data relating to frequently bought items. They try to find out associations between different items and products that can be sold together, which gives assisting in right product placement. Typically, it figures out what products are being bought together and organizations can place products in a similar manner.

This is what we are going to talk about in this chapter. How do we come up with such rules by means of machine...