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Python Machine Learning Cookbook, - Second Edition

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook, - Second Edition

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi

Overview of this book

This eagerly anticipated second edition of the popular Python Machine Learning Cookbook will enable you to adopt a fresh approach to dealing with real-world machine learning and deep learning tasks. With the help of over 100 recipes, you will learn to build powerful machine learning applications using modern libraries from the Python ecosystem. The book will also guide you on how to implement various machine learning algorithms for classification, clustering, and recommendation engines, using a recipe-based approach. With emphasis on practical solutions, dedicated sections in the book will help you to apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to real-world problems. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with recipes that teach you advanced techniques including reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and automated machine learning. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to apply machine learning techniques and leverage the full capabilities of the Python ecosystem through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Performing principal component analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique that's used frequently in computer vision and machine learning. When we deal with features with large dimensionalities, training a machine learning system becomes prohibitively expensive. Therefore, we need to reduce the dimensionality of the data before we can train a system. However, when we reduce the dimensionality, we don't want to lose the information that's present in the data. This is where PCA comes into the picture! PCA identifies the important components of the data and arranges them in order of importance.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will see how we can perform PCA on input data...