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Data Science Algorithms in a Week - Second Edition

By : David Natingga
Book Image

Data Science Algorithms in a Week - Second Edition

By: David Natingga

Overview of this book

Machine learning applications are highly automated and self-modifying, and continue to improve over time with minimal human intervention, as they learn from the trained data. To address the complex nature of various real-world data problems, specialized machine learning algorithms have been developed. Through algorithmic and statistical analysis, these models can be leveraged to gain new knowledge from existing data as well. Data Science Algorithms in a Week addresses all problems related to accurate and efficient data classification and prediction. Over the course of seven days, you will be introduced to seven algorithms, along with exercises that will help you understand different aspects of machine learning. You will see how to pre-cluster your data to optimize and classify it for large datasets. This book also guides you in predicting data based on existing trends in your dataset. This book covers algorithms such as k-nearest neighbors, Naive Bayes, decision trees, random forest, k-means, regression, and time-series analysis. By the end of this book, you will understand how to choose machine learning algorithms for clustering, classification, and regression and know which is best suited for your problem
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Glossary of Algorithms and Methods in Data Science
Index

House ownership – choosing the number of clusters


Let's take the example from the first chapter regarding house ownership:

Age

Annual income in USD

House ownership status

23

50,000

Non-owner

37

34,000

Non-owner

48

40,000

Owner

52

30,000

Non-owner

28

95,000

Owner

25

78,000

Non-owner

35

13,0000

Owner

32

10,5000

Owner

20

10,0000

Non-owner

40

60,000

Owner

50

80,000

Peter

 

We would like to predict whether Peter is a house owner using clustering.

Analysis

Just as in the first chapter, we will have to scale the data, since the income axis is significantly greater and thus would diminish the impact of the age axis, which actually has a good predictive power in this kind of problem. This is because it is expected that older people have had more time to settle down, save money, and buy a house, as compared to younger people.

We apply the same rescaling from Chapter 1Classification Using K Nearest Neighbors, and obtain the following table:

Age

Scaled age

Annual income in USD

Scaled annual income

House ownership status

23

0.09375

50000

0.2

non-owner...