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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993357
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Umit Mert Cakmak Umit Mert Cakmak
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Tiago Antao Tiago Antao
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Mert Cuhadaroglu Mert Cuhadaroglu
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface Working with NumPy Arrays Linear Algebra with NumPy Exploratory Data Analysis of Boston Housing Data with NumPy Statistics Predicting Housing Prices Using Linear Regression Clustering Clients of a Wholesale Distributor Using NumPy NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn Advanced Numpy Overview of High-Performance Numerical Computing Libraries Performance Benchmarks Other Books You May Enjoy

Computing gradient

When you have a linear line, you take the derivative so the derivative shows the slope of this line. Gradient is a generalization of the derivative when you have a multiple variable in your function, therefore the result of gradient is actually a vector function rather than a scalar value in derivative. The main goal of ML is actually finding the best model that fits your data. You can evaluate the meaning of the best as minimizing your loss function or objective function. Gradient is used for finding the value of the coefficients or a function that will minimize your loss or cost function. A well-known way of finding optimum points is taking the derivative of the objective function then setting it to zero to find your model coefficients. If you have more than one coefficient then it becomes a gradient rather than a derivative, and it becomes a vector equation...

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