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Python Machine Learning Blueprints - Second Edition

By : Alexander Combs, Michael Roman
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Blueprints - Second Edition

By: Alexander Combs, Michael Roman

Overview of this book

Machine learning is transforming the way we understand and interact with the world around us. This book is the perfect guide for you to put your knowledge and skills into practice and use the Python ecosystem to cover key domains in machine learning. This second edition covers a range of libraries from the Python ecosystem, including TensorFlow and Keras, to help you implement real-world machine learning projects. The book begins by giving you an overview of machine learning with Python. With the help of complex datasets and optimized techniques, you’ll go on to understand how to apply advanced concepts and popular machine learning algorithms to real-world projects. Next, you’ll cover projects from domains such as predictive analytics to analyze the stock market and recommendation systems for GitHub repositories. In addition to this, you’ll also work on projects from the NLP domain to create a custom news feed using frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and Keras. Following this, you’ll learn how to build an advanced chatbot, and scale things up using PySpark. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to exciting insights into deep learning and you'll even create an application using computer vision and neural networks. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to analyze data seamlessly and make a powerful impact through your projects.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Exploring the features of shareability

The stories we have collected here represent roughly the 500 most shared pieces of content in 2015 and early 2016. We're going to try to deconstruct these articles to find the common traits that make them so shareable. We'll begin by looking at the image data.

Exploring image data

Let's begin by looking at the number of images included with each story. We'll run a value count and then plot the numbers:

dfc['img_count'].value_counts().to_frame('count') 

This should display an output similar to the following:

Now, let's plot that same information:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,6)) 
y = dfc['img_count'].value_counts().sort_index...