- Python Machine Learning
- Table of Contents
- Python Machine Learning
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data
- Building intelligent machines to transform data into knowledge
- The three different types of machine learning
- An introduction to the basic terminology and notations
- A roadmap for building machine learning systems
- Using Python for machine learning
- Summary
- 2. Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification
- 3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using Scikit-learn
- Choosing a classification algorithm
- First steps with scikit-learn
- Modeling class probabilities via logistic regression
- Maximum margin classification with support vector machines
- Solving nonlinear problems using a kernel SVM
- Decision tree learning
- K-nearest neighbors – a lazy learning algorithm
- Summary
- 4. Building Good Training Sets – Data Preprocessing
- 5. Compressing Data via Dimensionality Reduction
- 6. Learning Best Practices for Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning
- 7. Combining Different Models for Ensemble Learning
- 8. Applying Machine Learning to Sentiment Analysis
- 9. Embedding a Machine Learning Model into a Web Application
- 10. Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis
- Introducing a simple linear regression model
- Exploring the Housing Dataset
- Implementing an ordinary least squares linear regression model
- Fitting a robust regression model using RANSAC
- Evaluating the performance of linear regression models
- Using regularized methods for regression
- Turning a linear regression model into a curve – polynomial regression
- Summary
- 11. Working with Unlabeled Data – Clustering Analysis
- 12. Training Artificial Neural Networks for Image Recognition
- Modeling complex functions with artificial neural networks
- Classifying handwritten digits
- Training an artificial neural network
- Developing your intuition for backpropagation
- Debugging neural networks with gradient checking
- Convergence in neural networks
- Other neural network architectures
- A few last words about neural network implementation
- Summary
- 13. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with Theano
- Index
Sebastian Raschka is a PhD student at Michigan State University, who develops new computational methods in the field of computational biology. He has been ranked as the number one most influential data scientist on GitHub by Analytics Vidhya. He has many years of experience with coding in Python and he has conducted several seminars on the practical applications of data science and machine learning. Talking and writing about data science, machine learning, and Python really motivated Sebastian to write this book in order to help people develop data-driven solutions without necessarily needing to have a machine learning background.
He has also actively contributed to open source projects and methods that he implemented, which are now successfully used in machine learning competitions, such as Kaggle. In his free time, he works on models for sports predictions, and if he is not in front of the computer, he enjoys playing sports.
I would like to thank my professors, Arun Ross and Pang-Ning Tan, and many others who inspired me and kindled my great interest in pattern classification, machine learning, and data mining.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the great Python community and developers of open source packages who helped me create the perfect environment for scientific research and data science.
A special thanks goes to the core developers of scikit-learn. As a contributor to this project, I had the pleasure to work with great people, who are not only very knowledgeable when it comes to machine learning, but are also excellent programmers.
Lastly, I want to thank you all for showing an interest in this book, and I sincerely hope that I can pass on my enthusiasm to join the great Python and machine learning communities.
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