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Hyatt Saleh
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Hyatt Saleh

Hyatt Saleh discovered the importance of data analysis for understanding and solving real-life problems after graduating from college as a business administrator. Since then, as a self-taught person, she not only works as a machine learning freelancer for many companies globally, but has also founded an artificial intelligence company that aims to optimize everyday processes. She has also authored Machine Learning Fundamentals, by Packt Publishing.
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ML consists of constructing models that are able to convert data into knowledge that can be used to make decisions, some of which are based on complicated mathematical concepts to understand data. Scikit-learn is an open source Python library that is meant to facilitate the process of applying these models to data problems, without much complex math knowledge required.

This chapter explained the key steps of preprocessing your input data, from separating the features from the target, to dealing with messy data and rescaling the values of the data. All these steps should be performed before diving into training a model as they help to improve the training times, as well as the performance of the models.

Next, the different components of the scikit-learn API were explained: the estimator, the predictor, and the transformer. Finally, this chapter covered the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning, and the most popular algorithms of each type of learning...

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Published in: Jul 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839219061

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Hyatt Saleh

Hyatt Saleh discovered the importance of data analysis for understanding and solving real-life problems after graduating from college as a business administrator. Since then, as a self-taught person, she not only works as a machine learning freelancer for many companies globally, but has also founded an artificial intelligence company that aims to optimize everyday processes. She has also authored Machine Learning Fundamentals, by Packt Publishing.
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