Book description
100 recipes that teach you how to perform various machine learning tasks in the real world
About This Book
- Understand which algorithms to use in a given context with the help of this exciting recipe-based guide
- Learn about perceptrons and see how they are used to build neural networks
- Stuck while making sense of images, text, speech, and real estate? This guide will come to your rescue, showing you how to perform machine learning for each one of these using various techniques
Who This Book Is For
This book is for Python programmers who are looking to use machine-learning algorithms to create real-world applications. This book is friendly to Python beginners, but familiarity with Python programming would certainly be useful to play around with the code.
What You Will Learn
- Explore classification algorithms and apply them to the income bracket estimation problem
- Use predictive modeling and apply it to real-world problems
- Understand how to perform market segmentation using unsupervised learning
- Explore data visualization techniques to interact with your data in diverse ways
- Find out how to build a recommendation engine
- Understand how to interact with text data and build models to analyze it
- Work with speech data and recognize spoken words using Hidden Markov Models
- Analyze stock market data using Conditional Random Fields
- Work with image data and build systems for image recognition and biometric face recognition
- Grasp how to use deep neural networks to build an optical character recognition system
In Detail
Machine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more.
With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We'll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you'll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms.
You'll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.
Style and approach
You will explore various real-life scenarios in this book where machine learning can be used, and learn about different building blocks of machine learning using independent recipes in the book.
Table of contents
-
Python Machine Learning Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Python Machine Learning Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
-
1. The Realm of Supervised Learning
- Introduction
- Preprocessing data using different techniques
- Label encoding
- Building a linear regressor
- Computing regression accuracy
- Achieving model persistence
- Building a ridge regressor
- Building a polynomial regressor
- Estimating housing prices
- Computing the relative importance of features
- Estimating bicycle demand distribution
-
2. Constructing a Classifier
- Introduction
- Building a simple classifier
- Building a logistic regression classifier
- Building a Naive Bayes classifier
- Splitting the dataset for training and testing
- Evaluating the accuracy using cross-validation
- Visualizing the confusion matrix
- Extracting the performance report
- Evaluating cars based on their characteristics
- Extracting validation curves
- Extracting learning curves
- Estimating the income bracket
- 3. Predictive Modeling
-
4. Clustering with Unsupervised Learning
- Introduction
- Clustering data using the k-means algorithm
- Compressing an image using vector quantization
- Building a Mean Shift clustering model
- Grouping data using agglomerative clustering
- Evaluating the performance of clustering algorithms
- Automatically estimating the number of clusters using DBSCAN algorithm
- Finding patterns in stock market data
- Building a customer segmentation model
-
5. Building Recommendation Engines
- Introduction
- Building function compositions for data processing
- Building machine learning pipelines
- Finding the nearest neighbors
- Constructing a k-nearest neighbors classifier
- Constructing a k-nearest neighbors regressor
- Computing the Euclidean distance score
- Computing the Pearson correlation score
- Finding similar users in the dataset
- Generating movie recommendations
-
6. Analyzing Text Data
- Introduction
- Preprocessing data using tokenization
- Stemming text data
- Converting text to its base form using lemmatization
- Dividing text using chunking
- Building a bag-of-words model
- Building a text classifier
- Identifying the gender
- Analyzing the sentiment of a sentence
- Identifying patterns in text using topic modeling
- 7. Speech Recognition
-
8. Dissecting Time Series and Sequential Data
- Introduction
- Transforming data into the time series format
- Slicing time series data
- Operating on time series data
- Extracting statistics from time series data
- Building Hidden Markov Models for sequential data
- Building Conditional Random Fields for sequential text data
- Analyzing stock market data using Hidden Markov Models
-
9. Image Content Analysis
- Introduction
- Operating on images using OpenCV-Python
- Detecting edges
- Histogram equalization
- Detecting corners
- Detecting SIFT feature points
- Building a Star feature detector
- Creating features using visual codebook and vector quantization
- Training an image classifier using Extremely Random Forests
- Building an object recognizer
-
10. Biometric Face Recognition
- Introduction
- Capturing and processing video from a webcam
- Building a face detector using Haar cascades
- Building eye and nose detectors
- Performing Principal Components Analysis
- Performing Kernel Principal Components Analysis
- Performing blind source separation
- Building a face recognizer using Local Binary Patterns Histogram
-
11. Deep Neural Networks
- Introduction
- Building a perceptron
- Building a single layer neural network
- Building a deep neural network
- Creating a vector quantizer
- Building a recurrent neural network for sequential data analysis
- Visualizing the characters in an optical character recognition database
- Building an optical character recognizer using neural networks
- 12. Visualizing Data
- Index
Product information
- Title: Python Machine Learning Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781786464477
You might also like
book
Python Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition
Discover powerful ways to effectively solve real-world machine learning problems using key libraries including scikit-learn, TensorFlow, …
book
Python Machine Learning By Example
Take tiny steps to enter the big world of data science through this interesting guide About …
book
Python: Real World Machine Learning
Learn to solve challenging data science problems by building powerful machine learning models using Python About …
book
Machine Learning with Python Cookbook
This practical guide provides nearly 200 self-contained recipes to help you solve machine learning challenges you …
