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Machine Learning Fundamentals

By : Hyatt Saleh
Book Image

Machine Learning Fundamentals

By: Hyatt Saleh

Overview of this book

As machine learning algorithms become popular, new tools that optimize these algorithms are also developed. Machine Learning Fundamentals explains you how to use the syntax of scikit-learn. You'll study the difference between supervised and unsupervised models, as well as the importance of choosing the appropriate algorithm for each dataset. You'll apply unsupervised clustering algorithms over real-world datasets, to discover patterns and profiles, and explore the process to solve an unsupervised machine learning problem. The focus of the book then shifts to supervised learning algorithms. You'll learn to implement different supervised algorithms and develop neural network structures using the scikit-learn package. You'll also learn how to perform coherent result analysis to improve the performance of the algorithm by tuning hyperparameters. By the end of this book, you will have gain all the skills required to start programming machine learning algorithms.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Machine Learning Fundamentals
Preface

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we covered the key steps involved in working with a supervised learning data problem. These steps aim to create high performance algorithms, as explained previously. This chapter focuses on applying different algorithms to a real-life dataset, with the underlying objective of applying the steps that we learned previously to choose the best performing algorithm for the case study. Considering this, you will analyze and preprocess a dataset, and then create three models using different algorithms. These models will be compared to one another, in order to measure performance.