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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)

Building a bag-of-words model

When it comes to dealing with text documents that consist of millions of words, converting them into numerical representations is necessary. The reason for this is to make them usable for machine learning algorithms. These algorithms need numerical data so that they can analyze them and output meaningful information. This is where the bag-of-words approach comes into the picture. This is basically a model that learns a vocabulary from all of the words in all the documents. It models each document by building a histogram of all of the words in the document.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will build a bag-of-words model to extract a document term matrix, using the sklearn.feature_extraction.text...