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Python Data Science Essentials - Third Edition

By : Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron
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Python Data Science Essentials - Third Edition

By: Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron

Overview of this book

Fully expanded and upgraded, the latest edition of Python Data Science Essentials will help you succeed in data science operations using the most common Python libraries. This book offers up-to-date insight into the core of Python, including the latest versions of the Jupyter Notebook, NumPy, pandas, and scikit-learn. The book covers detailed examples and large hybrid datasets to help you grasp essential statistical techniques for data collection, data munging and analysis, visualization, and reporting activities. You will also gain an understanding of advanced data science topics such as machine learning algorithms, distributed computing, tuning predictive models, and natural language processing. Furthermore, You’ll also be introduced to deep learning and gradient boosting solutions such as XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost. By the end of the book, you will have gained a complete overview of the principal machine learning algorithms, graph analysis techniques, and all the visualization and deployment instruments that make it easier to present your results to an audience of both data science experts and business users
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Deep Learning Beyond the Basics

In this chapter, we will introduce deep models, and we will show three examples of how to build deep models. More specifically, in this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • The basics of deep learning
  • How to optimize a deep net
  • The speed/complexity/accuracy problem
  • How to classify images with a CNN
  • How to use a pre-trained network for classification and transfer learning
  • How to operate on sequences using a LSTM

We will be using the Keras package (https://keras.io/), which is a high-level API for deep learning that will render approaching neural networks for deep learning much easier and more understandable because it is characterized by a Lego-like approach (here, the bricks are a neural network's composing elements).