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Hands-On Machine Learning with Microsoft Excel 2019

By : Julio Cesar Rodriguez Martino
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Microsoft Excel 2019

By: Julio Cesar Rodriguez Martino

Overview of this book

We have made huge progress in teaching computers to perform difficult tasks, especially those that are repetitive and time-consuming for humans. Excel users, of all levels, can feel left behind by this innovation wave. The truth is that a large amount of the work needed to develop and use a machine learning model can be done in Excel. The book starts by giving a general introduction to machine learning, making every concept clear and understandable. Then, it shows every step of a machine learning project, from data collection, reading from different data sources, developing models, and visualizing the results using Excel features and offerings. In every chapter, there are several examples and hands-on exercises that will show the reader how to combine Excel functions, add-ins, and connections to databases and to cloud services to reach the desired goal: building a full data analysis flow. Different machine learning models are shown, tailored to the type of data to be analyzed. At the end of the book, the reader is presented with some advanced use cases using Automated Machine Learning, and artificial neural network, which simplifies the analysis task and represents the future of machine learning.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Machine Learning Basics
4
Section 2: Data Collection and Preparation
8
Section 3: Analytics and Machine Learning Models
11
Section 4: Data Visualization and Advanced Machine Learning

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms, covers the basic machine learning algorithms and how to implement them.

Chapter 2, Hands-On Examples of Machine Learning Models, adds some examples of algorithms and their use cases.

Chapter 3, Importing Data into Excel from Different Data Sources, covers how to read data from different sources into Excel.

Chapter 4, Data Cleansing and Preliminary Data Analysis, describes data preprocessing to prepare data for use in machine learning models.

Chapter 5, Correlations and the Importance of Variables, covers feature engineering, which involves identifying redundant variables and useful relationships between variables.

Chapter 6, Data Mining Models in Excel Hands-On Examples, describes examples of the most frequently used algorithms in solving business problems such as Market Basket Analysis and customer cohort analysis.

Chapter 7, Implementing Time Series, covers time series analysis and prediction.

Chapter 8, Visualizing Data in Diagrams, Histograms, and Maps, describes the different available diagrams in Excel and what they are used for.

Chapter 9, Artificial Neural Networks, covers advances machine learning in the form of artificial neural networks and deep learning.

Chapter 10, Azure and Excel - Machine Learning in the Cloud, covers building and using machine learning models in the cloud, connecting them to Excel.

Chapter 11, The Future of Machine Learning, covers the automation of data analysis and predictive models.