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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)

Introduction

Unsupervised learning is a paradigm in machine learning where we build models without relying on labeled training data. Up to this point, we have dealt with data that was labeled in some way. This means that learning algorithms can look at this data and learn to categorize it them based on labels. In the world of unsupervised learning, we don't have this opportunity! These algorithms are used when we want to find subgroups within datasets using a similarity metric.

In unsupervised learning, information from the database is automatically extracted. All this takes place without prior knowledge of the content to be analyzed. In unsupervised learning, there is no information on the classes that the examples belong to, or on the output corresponding to a given input. We want a model that can discover interesting properties, such as groups with similar characteristics...