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Machine Learning in Production: Developing and Optimizing Data Science Workflows and Applications, First Edition

Author Adam Kelleher , Andrew Kelleher
Release Date: 2019/03/01
ISBN: 9780134116556
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Foundational Hands-On Skills for Succeeding with Real Data Science Projects

 

This pragmatic book introduces both machine learning and data science, bridging gaps between data scientist and engineer, and helping you bring these techniques into production. It helps ensure that your efforts actually solve your problem, and offers unique coverage of real-world optimization in production settings.

–From the Foreword by Paul Dix, series editor

 

Machine Learning in Production is a crash course in data science and machine learning for people who need to solve real-world problems in production environments. Written for technically competent “accidental data scientists” with more curiosity and ambition than formal training, this complete and rigorous introduction stresses practice, not theory.

 

Building on agile principles, Andrew and Adam Kelleher show how to quickly deliver significant value in production, resisting overhyped tools and unnecessary complexity. Drawing on their extensive experience, they help you ask useful questions and then execute production projects from start to finish.

 

The authors show just how much information you can glean with straightforward queries, aggregations, and visualizations, and they teach indispensable error analysis methods to avoid costly mistakes. They turn to workhorse machine learning techniques such as linear regression, classification, clustering, and Bayesian inference, helping you choose the right algorithm for each production problem. Their concluding section on hardware, infrastructure, and distributed systems offers unique and invaluable guidance on optimization in production environments.

 

Andrew and Adam always focus on what matters in production: solving the problems that offer the highest return on investment, using the simplest, lowest-risk approaches that work.

  • Leverage agile principles to maximize development efficiency in production projects
  • Learn from practical Python code examples and visualizations that bring essential algorithmic concepts to life
  • Start with simple heuristics and improve them as your data pipeline matures
  • Avoid bad conclusions by implementing foundational error analysis techniques
  • Communicate your results with basic data visualization techniques
  • Master basic machine learning techniques, starting with linear regression and random forests
  • Perform classification and clustering on both vector and graph data
  • Learn the basics of graphical models and Bayesian inference
  • Understand correlation and causation in machine learning models
  • Explore overfitting, model capacity, and other advanced machine learning techniques
  • Make informed architectural decisions about storage, data transfer, computation, and communication

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Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. About This E-Book
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
    1. Who This Book Is For
    2. What This Book Covers
    3. Going Forward
  9. About the Authors
  10. I: Principles of Framing
    1. 1. The Role of the Data Scientist
      1. 1.1 Introduction
      2. 1.2 The Role of the Data Scientist
      3. 1.3 Conclusion
    2. 2. Project Workflow
      1. 2.1 Introduction
      2. 2.2 The Data Team Context
      3. 2.3 Agile Development and the Product Focus
      4. 2.4 Conclusion
    3. 3. Quantifying Error
      1. 3.1 Introduction
      2. 3.2 Quantifying Error in Measured Values
      3. 3.3 Sampling Error
      4. 3.4 Error Propagation
      5. 3.5 Conclusion
    4. 4. Data Encoding and Preprocessing
      1. 4.1 Introduction
      2. 4.2 Simple Text Preprocessing
      3. 4.3 Information Loss
      4. 4.4 Conclusion
    5. 5. Hypothesis Testing
      1. 5.1 Introduction
      2. 5.2 What Is a Hypothesis?
      3. 5.3 Types of Errors
      4. 5.4 P-values and Confidence Intervals
      5. 5.5 Multiple Testing and “P-hacking”
      6. 5.6 An Example
      7. 5.7 Planning and Context
      8. 5.8 Conclusion
    6. 6. Data Visualization
      1. 6.1 Introduction
      2. 6.2 Distributions and Summary Statistics
      3. 6.3 Time-Series Plots
      4. 6.4 Graph Visualization
      5. 6.5 Conclusion
  11. II: Algorithms and Architectures
    1. 7. Introduction to Algorithms and Architectures
      1. 7.1 Introduction
      2. 7.2 Architectures
      3. 7.3 Models
      4. 7.4 Conclusion
    2. 8. Comparison
      1. 8.1 Introduction
      2. 8.2 Jaccard Distance
      3. 8.3 MinHash
      4. 8.4 Cosine Similarity
      5. 8.5 Mahalanobis Distance
      6. 8.6 Conclusion
    3. 9. Regression
      1. 9.1 Introduction
      2. 9.2 Linear Least Squares
      3. 9.3 Nonlinear Regression with Linear Regression
      4. 9.4 Random Forest
      5. 9.5 Conclusion
    4. 10. Classification and Clustering
      1. 10.1 Introduction
      2. 10.2 Logistic Regression
      3. 10.3 Bayesian Inference, Naive Bayes
      4. 10.4 K-Means
      5. 10.5 Leading Eigenvalue
      6. 10.6 Greedy Louvain
      7. 10.7 Nearest Neighbors
      8. 10.8 Conclusion
    5. 11. Bayesian Networks
      1. 11.1 Introduction
      2. 11.2 Causal Graphs, Conditional Independence, and Markovity
      3. 11.3 D-separation and the Markov Property
      4. 11.4 Causal Graphs as Bayesian Networks
      5. 11.5 Fitting Models
      6. 11.6 Conclusion
    6. 12. Dimensional Reduction and Latent Variable Models
      1. 12.1 Introduction
      2. 12.2 Priors
      3. 12.3 Factor Analysis
      4. 12.4 Principal Components Analysis
      5. 12.5 Independent Component Analysis
      6. 12.6 Latent Dirichlet Allocation
      7. 12.7 Conclusion
    7. 13. Causal Inference
      1. 13.1 Introduction
      2. 13.2 Experiments
      3. 13.3 Observation: An Example
      4. 13.4 Controlling to Block Non-causal Paths
      5. 13.5 Machine-Learning Estimators
      6. 13.6 Conclusion
    8. 14. Advanced Machine Learning
      1. 14.1 Introduction
      2. 14.2 Optimization
      3. 14.3 Neural Networks
      4. 14.4 Conclusion
  12. III: Bottlenecks and Optimizations
    1. 15. Hardware Fundamentals
      1. 15.1 Introduction
      2. 15.2 Random Access Memory
      3. 15.3 Nonvolatile/Persistent Storage
      4. 15.4 Throughput
      5. 15.5 Processors
      6. 15.6 Conclusion
    2. 16. Software Fundamentals
      1. 16.1 Introduction
      2. 16.2 Paging
      3. 16.3 Indexing
      4. 16.4 Granularity
      5. 16.5 Robustness
      6. 16.6 Extract, Transfer/Transform, Load
      7. 16.7 Conclusion
    3. 17. Software Architecture
      1. 17.1 Introduction
      2. 17.2 Client-Server Architecture
      3. 17.3 N-tier/Service-Oriented Architecture
      4. 17.4 Microservices
      5. 17.5 Monolith
      6. 17.6 Practical Cases (Mix-and-Match Architectures)
      7. 17.7 Conclusion
    4. 18. The CAP Theorem
      1. 18.1 Introduction
      2. 18.2 Consistency/Concurrency
      3. 18.3 Availability
      4. 18.4 Partition Tolerance
      5. 18.5 Conclusion
    5. 19. Logical Network Topological Nodes
      1. 19.1 Introduction
      2. 19.2 Network Diagrams
      3. 19.3 Load Balancing
      4. 19.4 Caches
      5. 19.5 Databases
      6. 19.6 Queues
      7. 19.7 Conclusion
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Credits
  16. Code Snippets
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