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Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits

By : Tarek Amr
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits

By: Tarek Amr

Overview of this book

Machine learning is applied everywhere, from business to research and academia, while scikit-learn is a versatile library that is popular among machine learning practitioners. This book serves as a practical guide for anyone looking to provide hands-on machine learning solutions with scikit-learn and Python toolkits. The book begins with an explanation of machine learning concepts and fundamentals, and strikes a balance between theoretical concepts and their applications. Each chapter covers a different set of algorithms, and shows you how to use them to solve real-life problems. You’ll also learn about various key supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms using practical examples. Whether it is an instance-based learning algorithm, Bayesian estimation, a deep neural network, a tree-based ensemble, or a recommendation system, you’ll gain a thorough understanding of its theory and learn when to apply it. As you advance, you’ll learn how to deal with unlabeled data and when to use different clustering and anomaly detection algorithms. By the end of this machine learning book, you’ll have learned how to take a data-driven approach to provide end-to-end machine learning solutions. You’ll also have discovered how to formulate the problem at hand, prepare required data, and evaluate and deploy models in production.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Supervised Learning
8
Section 2: Advanced Supervised Learning
13
Section 3: Unsupervised Learning and More

Finding regression intervals

"Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty."
– Brian Greene

It's not always guaranteed that we have accurate models. Sometimes, our data is inherently noisy and we cannot model it using a regressor. In these cases, it is important to be able to quantify how certain we arein our estimations. Usually, regressors make point predictions. These are the expected values (typically the mean) of the target (y) at each value of x. A Bayesian ridge regressor is capable of returning the expected values as usual, yet it also returns the standard deviation of the target (y) at each value of x.

To demonstrate how this works, let's create a noisy dataset, where :

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df_noisy = pd.DataFrame(
{
'x': np.random.random_integers(0, 30, size=150),
'noise': np.random.normal(loc=0.0, scale=5.0, size=150)
}
)

df_noisy['y'...