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Product type Book

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804612989

Pages 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Data Science

Author (1):

Aleksander Molak

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Causality – an Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Causality – Hey, We Have Machine Learning, So Why Even Bother?

3. Chapter 2: Judea Pearl and the Ladder of Causation

4. Chapter 3: Regression, Observations, and Interventions

5. Chapter 4: Graphical Models

6. Chapter 5: Forks, Chains, and Immoralities

7. Part 2: Causal Inference

8. Chapter 6: Nodes, Edges, and Statistical (In)dependence

9. Chapter 7: The Four-Step Process of Causal Inference

10. Chapter 8: Causal Models – Assumptions and Challenges

11. Chapter 9: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – from Matching to Meta-Learners

12. Chapter 10: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – Advanced Estimators, Experiments, Evaluations, and More

13. Chapter 11: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – Deep Learning, NLP, and Beyond

14. Part 3: Causal Discovery

15. Chapter 12: Can I Have a Causal Graph, Please?

16. Chapter 13: Causal Discovery and Machine Learning – from Assumptions to Applications

17. Chapter 14: Causal Discovery and Machine Learning – Advanced Deep Learning and Beyond

18. Chapter 15: Epilogue

19. Index

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning causality

In this section, we’ll point to the resources to learn more about causality after finishing this book.

For many people starting with causality, their learning path begins with excitement. The promise of causality is attractive and powerful. After learning about the basics and realizing the challenges that any student of causality has to face, many of us lose hope in the early stages of our journeys.

Some of us regain it, learning that solutions do exist, although not necessarily where we initially expected to find them.

After overcoming the first challenges and going deeper into the topic, many of us realize that there are more difficulties to come. Learning from earlier experiences, it’s easier at this stage to realize that (many of) these difficulties can be tackled using a creative and systematic approach.

I like the way the Swiss educator and researcher Quentin Gallea presented the journey into learning causality in a graphical form...