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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 HMMs for sequential data

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are particularly suitable for sequential data analysis problems. They are widely used in fields such as speech analysis, finance, word sequencing, weather forecasting, and so on.

Any source of data that produces a sequence of outputs can produce patterns. Note that HMMs are generative models, which means that they can generate the data once they learn the underlying structure. HMMs cannot discriminate between classes in their base forms. This is in contrast to discriminative models that can learn to discriminate between classes but cannot generate data.

Getting ready

Let's say that we want to predict whether the weather will be sunny, chilly, or rainy tomorrow...