Large Scale Machine Learning with Python

Preface

	"The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps."
	--Douglas Hofstadter

Machine learning is often referred to as the part of artificial intelligence that actually works. Its aim is to find a function based on an existing set of data (training set) in order to predict outcomes of a previously unseen dataset (test set) with the highest possible correctness. This occurs either in the form of labels and classes (classification problems) or in the form of a continuous value (regression problems). Tangible examples of machine learning in real-life applications range from predicting future stock prices to classifying ...