unlock deeper insights into machine learning with this vital guide to cutting-edge predictive analytics /
Sebastian Raschka.
xiii, 425 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
Community experience distilled
Includes index.
Giving computers the ability to learn from data -- Training machine learning algorithms for classification -- A tour of machine learning classifiers using Scikit-learn -- Building good training sets : data preprocessing -- Compressing data via dimensionality reduction -- Learning best practices for model evaluation and hyperparameter tuning -- Combining different models for ensemble learning -- Applying machine learning to sentiment analysis -- Embedding a machine learning model into a web application -- Predicting continuous target variables with regression analysis -- Working with unlabeled data : clustering analysis -- Training artificial neural networks for image recognition -- Parallelizing neural network training with Theano.
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