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Machine Learning with scikit-learn Quick Start Guide

By : Kevin Jolly

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Machine Learning with scikit-learn Quick Start Guide

By: Kevin Jolly

Overview of this book

Scikit-learn is a robust machine learning library for the Python programming language. It provides a set of supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. This book is the easiest way to learn how to deploy, optimize, and evaluate all of the important machine learning algorithms that scikit-learn provides. This book teaches you how to use scikit-learn for machine learning. You will start by setting up and configuring your machine learning environment with scikit-learn. To put scikit-learn to use, you will learn how to implement various supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. You will learn classification, regression, and clustering techniques to work with different types of datasets and train your models. Finally, you will learn about an effective pipeline to help you build a machine learning project from scratch. By the end of this book, you will be confident in building your own machine learning models for accurate predictions.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Free Chapter

Introducing Machine Learning with scikit-learn

Introducing Machine Learning with scikit-learn

A brief introduction to machine learning

What is scikit-learn?

Installing scikit-learn

Algorithms that you will learn to implement using scikit-learn

Predicting Categories with K-Nearest Neighbors

Predicting Categories with K-Nearest Neighbors

Technical requirements

Preparing a dataset for machine learning with scikit-learn

The k-NN algorithm

Implementing the k-NN algorithm using scikit-learn

Fine-tuning the parameters of the k-NN algorithm

Scaling for optimized performance

Predicting Categories with Logistic Regression

Predicting Categories with Logistic Regression

Technical requirements

Understanding logistic regression mathematically

Implementing logistic regression using scikit-learn

Fine-tuning the hyperparameters

Scaling the data

Interpreting the logistic regression model

Predicting Categories with Naive Bayes and SVMs

Predicting Categories with Naive Bayes and SVMs

Technical requirements

The Naive Bayes algorithm

Support vector machines

Predicting Numeric Outcomes with Linear Regression

Predicting Numeric Outcomes with Linear Regression

Technical requirements

The inner mechanics of the linear regression algorithm

Implementing linear regression in scikit-learn

Model optimization

Classification and Regression with Trees

Classification and Regression with Trees

Technical requirements

Classification trees

Regression trees

Ensemble classifier

Clustering Data with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Clustering Data with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Technical requirements

The k-means algorithm

Implementing the k-means algorithm in scikit-learn

Feature engineering for optimization

Cluster visualization

Going from unsupervised to supervised learning

Performance Evaluation Methods

Performance Evaluation Methods

Technical requirements

Why is performance evaluation critical?

Performance evaluation for classification algorithms

Performance evaluation for regression algorithms

Performance evaluation for unsupervised algorithms

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What is scikit-learn?

Scikit-learn is a free and open source software that helps you tackle supervised and unsupervised machine learning problems. The software is built entirely in Python and utilizes some of the most popular libraries that Python has to offer, namely NumPy and SciPy.

The main reason why scikit-learn is very popular stems from the fact that most of the world's most popular machine learning algorithms can be implemented quite quickly in a plug and play format once you know what the core pipeline is like. Another reason is that popular algorithms for classification such as logistic regression and support vector machines are written in Cython. Cython is used to give these algorithms C-like performance and thus makes the use of scikit-learn quite efficient in the process.