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The Machine Learning Workshop - Second Edition

You're reading from  The Machine Learning Workshop - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839219061
Pages 286 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Hyatt Saleh Hyatt Saleh
Profile icon Hyatt Saleh

Scikit-Learn API

The objective of the scikit-learn API is to provide an efficient and unified syntax to make ML accessible to non-ML experts, as well as to facilitate and popularize its use among several industries.

How Does It Work?

Although it has many collaborators, the scikit-learn API was built and has been updated by considering a set of principles that prevent framework code proliferation, where different code performs similar functionalities. On the contrary, it promotes simple conventions and consistency. Due to this, the scikit-learn API is consistent among all models, and once the main functionalities have been learned, it can be used widely.

The scikit-learn API is divided into three complementary interfaces that share a common syntax and logic: the estimator, the predictor, and the transformer. The estimator interface is used for creating models and fitting the data into them; the predictor, as its name suggests, is used to make predictions based on the models...

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