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Applied Deep Learning with Python

By : Alex Galea, Luis Capelo
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Applied Deep Learning with Python

By: Alex Galea, Luis Capelo

Overview of this book

Taking an approach that uses the latest developments in the Python ecosystem, you’ll first be guided through the Jupyter ecosystem, key visualization libraries and powerful data sanitization techniques before you train your first predictive model. You’ll then explore a variety of approaches to classification such as support vector networks, random decision forests and k-nearest neighbors to build on your knowledge before moving on to advanced topics. After covering classification, you’ll go on to discover ethical web scraping and interactive visualizations, which will help you professionally gather and present your analysis. Next, you’ll start building your keystone deep learning application, one that aims to predict the future price of Bitcoin based on historical public data. You’ll then be guided through a trained neural network, which will help you explore common deep learning network architectures (convolutional, recurrent, and generative adversarial networks) and deep reinforcement learning. Later, you’ll delve into model optimization and evaluation. You’ll do all this while working on a production-ready web application that combines TensorFlow and Keras to produce meaningful user-friendly results. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to tackle and develop your own real-world deep learning projects confidently and effectively.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Jupyter Fundamentals, covers the fundamentals of data analysis in Jupyter. We will start with usage instructions and features of Jupyter such as magic functions and tab completion. We will then transition to data science specific material. We will run an exploratory analysis in a live Jupyter Notebook. We will use visual assists such as scatter plots, histograms, and violin plots to deepen our understanding of the data. We will also perform simple predictive modeling.,

Chapter 2, Data Cleaning and Advanced Machine Learning, shows how predictive models can be trained in Jupyter Notebooks. We will talk about how to plan a machine learning strategy. This chapter also explains the machine learning terminology such as supervised learning, unsupervised learning, classification, and regression. We will discuss methods for preprocessing data using scikit-learn and pandas.,

Chapter 3, Web Scraping and Interactive Visualizations, explains how to scrap web page tables and then use interactive visualizations to study the data. We will start by looking at how HTTP requests work, focusing on GET requests and their response status codes. Then, we will go into the Jupyter Notebook and make HTTP requests with Python using the Requests library. We will see how Jupyter can be used to render HTML in the notebook, along with actual web pages that can be interacted with. After making requests, we will see how Beautiful Soup can be used to parse text from the HTML, and used this library to scrape tabular data.

Chapter 4, Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning, helps you set up and configure deep learning environment and start looking at individual models and case studies. It also discusses neural networks and its idea along with their origins and explores their power.

Chapter 5, Model Architecture, shows how to predict Bitcoin prices using deep learning model.

Chapter 6, Model Evaluation and Optimization, shows how to evaluate a neural network model. We will modify the network's hyper parameters to improve its performance.

Chapter 7, Productization, explains how to create a working application from a deep learning model. We will deploy our Bitcoin prediction model as an application that is capable of handling new data by creating a new models.