To get the most out of this book

This book presents some of the most advanced predictive analytics tools, models, and techniques. The main goal is to show the viewer how to improve the performance of predictive models, firstly, by showing how to build more complex models, and secondly by showing how to use related techniques that dramatically improve the quality of predictive models.

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We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789617740_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The following screenshot shows the lines of code used for importing the train_test_split function and the RobustScaler method."

A block of code is set as follows:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
%matplotlib inline

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "The method used to choose the best estimators for a particular dataset or choosing the best values for all hyperparameters is called hyperparameter tuning."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.