Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn

Use scikit-learn to apply machine learning to real-world problems

Key Features

• Master popular machine learning models including k-nearest neighbors, random forests, logistic regression, k-means, naive Bayes, and artificial neural networks
• Learn how to build and evaluate performance of efficient models using scikit-learn
• Practical guide to master your basics and learn from real life applications of machine learning

Book Description

What you will learn

• Review fundamental concepts such as bias and variance
• Extract features from categorical variables, text, and images
• Predict the values of continuous variables using linear regression and K Nearest Neighbors
• Classify documents and images using logistic regression and support vector machines
• Create ensembles of estimators using bagging and boosting techniques
• Discover hidden structures in data using K-Means clustering
• Evaluate the performance of machine learning systems in common tasks

Who this book is for

This book is intended for software engineers who want to understand how common machine learning algorithms work and develop an intuition for how to use them, and for data scientists who want to learn about the scikit-learn API. Familiarity with machine learning fundamentals and Python are helpful, but not required.