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Python Machine Learning By Example - Third Edition

By : Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Python Machine Learning By Example - Third Edition

By: Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Overview of this book

Python Machine Learning By Example, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive gateway into the world of machine learning (ML). With six new chapters, on topics including movie recommendation engine development with Naïve Bayes, recognizing faces with support vector machine, predicting stock prices with artificial neural networks, categorizing images of clothing with convolutional neural networks, predicting with sequences using recurring neural networks, and leveraging reinforcement learning for making decisions, the book has been considerably updated for the latest enterprise requirements. At the same time, this book provides actionable insights on the key fundamentals of ML with Python programming. Hayden applies his expertise to demonstrate implementations of algorithms in Python, both from scratch and with libraries. Each chapter walks through an industry-adopted application. With the help of realistic examples, you will gain an understanding of the mechanics of ML techniques in areas such as exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, classification, regression, clustering, and NLP. By the end of this ML Python book, you will have gained a broad picture of the ML ecosystem and will be well-versed in the best practices of applying ML techniques to solve problems.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we worked on the last project in this book, predicting stock (specifically stock index) prices using machine learning regression techniques. We started with a short introduction to the stock market and factors that influence trading prices. To tackle this billion-dollar problem, we investigated machine learning regression, which estimates a continuous target variable, as opposed to discrete output in classification. We followed this with an in-depth discussion of three popular regression algorithms, linear regression, regression trees and regression forests, and SVR. We covered their definitions, mechanics, and implementations from scratch with several popular frameworks, including scikit-learn and TensorFlow, along with applications on toy datasets. You also learned the metrics used to evaluate a regression model. Finally, we applied what was covered in this whole chapter to solve our stock price prediction problem.

In the next chapter, we will continue...