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Python for Geeks

By : Muhammad Asif
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Python for Geeks

By: Muhammad Asif

Overview of this book

Python is a multipurpose language that can be used for multiple use cases. Python for Geeks will teach you how to advance in your career with the help of expert tips and tricks. You'll start by exploring the different ways of using Python optimally, both from the design and implementation point of view. Next, you'll understand the life cycle of a large-scale Python project. As you advance, you'll focus on different ways of creating an elegant design by modularizing a Python project and learn best practices and design patterns for using Python. You'll also discover how to scale out Python beyond a single thread and how to implement multiprocessing and multithreading in Python. In addition to this, you'll understand how you can not only use Python to deploy on a single machine but also use clusters in private as well as in public cloud computing environments. You'll then explore data processing techniques, focus on reusable, scalable data pipelines, and learn how to use these advanced techniques for network automation, serverless functions, and machine learning. Finally, you'll focus on strategizing web development design using the techniques and best practices covered in the book. By the end of this Python book, you'll be able to do some serious Python programming for large-scale complex projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Python, beyond the Basics
5
Section 2: Advanced Programming Concepts
9
Section 3: Scaling beyond a Single Thread
13
Section 4: Using Python for Web, Cloud, and Network Use Cases

Chapter 13: Python and Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that is based on building models by learning patterns from data and then using those models to make predictions. It is one of the most popular AI techniques for helping humans as well as businesses in many ways. For example, it is being used for medical diagnosis, image processing, speech recognition, predicting threats, data mining, classification, and many more scenarios. We all understand the importance and usefulness of machine learning in our lives. Python, being a concise but powerful language, is being used extensively to implement machine learning models. Python's ability to process and prepare data using libraries such as NumPy, pandas, and PySpark makes it a preferred choice for developers for building and training ML models.

In this chapter, we will discuss using Python for machine learning tasks in an optimized way. This is especially important because training...