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Data Science Projects with Python

By : Barbora stetinova
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Data Science Projects with Python

By: Barbora stetinova

Overview of this book

Data Science Projects with Python is designed to give you practical guidance on industry-standard data analysis and machine learning tools in Python, with the help of realistic data. The course will help you understand how you can use pandas and Matplotlib to critically examine a dataset with summary statistics and graphs and extract the insights you seek to derive. You will continue to build on your knowledge as you learn how to prepare data and feed it to machine learning algorithms, such as regularized logistic regression and random forest, using the scikit-learn package. You’ll discover how to tune the algorithms to provide the best predictions on new and, unseen data. As you delve into later chapters, you’ll be able to understand the working and output of these algorithms and gain insight into not only the predictive capabilities of the models but also their reasons for making these predictions. The codes for this course can be downloaded from https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/Data-Science-Projects-with-Python-eLearning.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 2
Introduction to Scikit-Learn and Model Evaluation
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Section 3
Introduction to Scikit-Learn
While pandas will save you a lot of time in loading, examining, and cleaning data, the machine learning algorithms that will enable you to do predictive modelling are in other packages. We consider scikit-learn to be the premier machine learning package for Python, outside of deep learning. While it's impossible for any one package to offer "everything," scikit-learn comes close in terms of accommodating a wide range of approaches for classification and regression, and unsupervised learning. Here are the topics that we will cover now: