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Machine Learning Fundamentals

By : Hyatt Saleh
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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

Program Definition


The following section will cover the key stages required to construct a comprehensive machine learning program that allows easy access to the trained model in order to perform predictions for all future data. These stages will be applied to the construction of a program that allows for a bank to determine the promotional strategy for a financial product in their marketing campaign.

Building a Program: Key Stages

At this point, you should be able to preprocess a dataset, build different models using training data, and compare those models, in order to choose the one that best fits the data at hand. These are some of the processes handled during the first two stages of building a program, which ultimately allow for the creation of the model. Nonetheless, a program should also consider the process of saving the final model, as well as the ability to perform quick predictions without the need for coding.

The processes that we just discussed are divided into three main stages...