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Python Machine Learning - Third Edition

You're reading from  Python Machine Learning - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955750
Pages 772 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Sebastian Raschka Sebastian Raschka
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Vahid Mirjalili Vahid Mirjalili
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data 2. Training Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification 3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn 4. Building Good Training Datasets – 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 11. Working with Unlabeled Data – Clustering Analysis 12. Implementing a Multilayer Artificial Neural Network from Scratch 13. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with TensorFlow 14. Going Deeper – The Mechanics of TensorFlow 15. Classifying Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks 16. Modeling Sequential Data Using Recurrent Neural Networks 17. Generative Adversarial Networks for Synthesizing New Data 18. Reinforcement Learning for Decision Making in Complex Environments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy 20. Index

Exploring the Housing dataset

Before we implement the first linear regression model, we will discuss a new dataset, the Housing dataset, which contains information about houses in the suburbs of Boston collected by D. Harrison and D.L. Rubinfeld in 1978. The Housing dataset has been made freely available and is included in the code bundle of this book. The dataset has recently been removed from the UCI Machine Learning Repository but is available online at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasbt/python-machine-learning-book-3rd-edition/master/ch10/housing.data.txt or scikit-learn (https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/sklearn/datasets/data/boston_house_prices.csv). As with each new dataset, it is always helpful to explore the data through a simple visualization, to get a better feeling of what we are working with.

Loading the Housing dataset into a data frame

In this section, we will load the Housing dataset using the pandas read_csv function, which is fast...

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