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The Machine Learning Workshop

The Machine Learning Workshop - Second Edition

By : Hyatt Saleh
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The Machine Learning Workshop

The Machine Learning Workshop

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By: Hyatt Saleh

Overview of this book

Machine learning algorithms are an integral part of almost all modern applications. To make the learning process faster and more accurate, you need a tool flexible and powerful enough to help you build machine learning algorithms quickly and easily. With The Machine Learning Workshop, you'll master the scikit-learn library and become proficient in developing clever machine learning algorithms. The Machine Learning Workshop begins by demonstrating how unsupervised and supervised learning algorithms work by analyzing a real-world dataset of wholesale customers. Once you've got to grips with the basics, you'll develop an artificial neural network using scikit-learn and then improve its performance by fine-tuning hyperparameters. Towards the end of the workshop, you'll study the dataset of a bank's marketing activities and build machine learning models that can list clients who are likely to subscribe to a term deposit. You'll also learn how to compare these models and select the optimal one. By the end of The Machine Learning Workshop, you'll not only have learned the difference between supervised and unsupervised models and their applications in the real world, but you'll also have developed the skills required to get started with programming your very own machine learning algorithms.
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Preface

Data Preprocessing

Data preprocessing is a very critical step for developing ML solutions as it helps make sure that the model is not trained on biased data. It has the capability to improve a model's performance, and it is often the reason why the same algorithm for the same data problem works better for a programmer that has done an outstanding job preprocessing the dataset.

For the computer to be able to understand the data proficiently, it is necessary to not only feed the data in a standardized way but also make sure that the data does not contain outliers or noisy data, or even missing entries. This is important because failing to do so might result in the algorithm making assumptions that are not true to the data. This will cause the model to train at a slower pace and to be less accurate due to misleading interpretations of data.

Moreover, data preprocessing does not end there. Models do not work the same way, and each one makes different assumptions. This means...

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