Grokking Machine Learning
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It's time to dispel the myth that machine learning is difficult. Grokking Machine Learning teaches you how to apply ML to your projects using only standard Python code and high school-level math. No specialist knowledge is required to tackle the hands-on exercises using readily-available machine learning tools!Written in an approachable manner with great use of very illustrative and applicable examples.
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1 What is machine learning?
1.1 Why this book?
1.2 Is machine learning hard?
1.3 But what exactly is machine learning?
1.3.1 What is the difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning?
1.3.2 What about deep learning?
1.4 Humans use the remember-formulate-predict framework to make decisions (and so can machines!)
1.4.1 How do humans think?
1.4.2 How do machines think?
1.5 What is this book about?
1.6 Summary
2 Types of machine learning
2.1 What is the difference between labelled and unlabelled data?
2.2 What is supervised learning?
2.2.1 Regression models predict numbers
2.2.2 Classification models predict a state
2.3 What is unsupervised learning?
2.3.1 Clustering algorithms split a dataset into similar groups
2.3.2 Dimensionality reduction simplifies data without losing much information
2.3.3 Matrix factorization and other types of unsupervised learning
2.4. What is reinforcement learning?
2.5 Summary
3 Drawing a line close to our points: Linear regression
3.1 The problem: We need to predict the price of a house
3.2 The solution: Building a regression model for housing prices
3.2.1 The remember step: looking at the prices of existing houses
3.2.2 The formulate step: formulating a rule that estimates the price of the house
3.2.3 The predict step: what do we do when a new house comes in the market?
3.2.4 Some questions that arise and some quick answers
3.3 How to get the computer to draw this line: the linear regression algorithm
3.3.1 Crash course on slope and y-intercept
3.3.2 A simple trick to move a line closer to a set of points, one point at a time.
3.3.2 The square trick: A much more clever way of moving our line closer to one of the points
3.3.3 The linear regression algorithm: Repeating the square trick many times
3.3.4 Plotting dots and lines
3.3.5 Using the linear regression algorithm in our dataset
3.4 Applications
3.4.1 Applications of linear regression
3.5 Summary
4 Using lines to split our points: The perceptron algorithm
4.1 The problem: We have too much spam email and need the computer to sort it
4.2 The solution: Building a spam classifier
4.2.1 The remember step: looking at our data
4.2.2 The formulate step: formulating a rule that guesses if an email is spam or ham
4.2.3 The predict step: what to do when a new email comes in?
4.2.4 Some questions that arise and some quick answers
4.2.5 Plotting our data and our classifier
4.3 How to get the computer to build this classifier: the perceptron algorithm
4.3.1 The perceptron trick: Improving our classifier one step at a time
4.3.2 Coding the perceptron trick
4.3.2 The perceptron algorithm: Repeating the perceptron trick many times
4.3.3 Using the perceptron algorithm on our dataset
4.4 Applications
4.4.1 More email spam classification - using other features aside from words
4.4.2 Sentiment analysis: analyzing if sentences are happy or sad
4.4.3 Image recognition: getting the computer to see and categorize images
4.5 Summary
5 Iterating on a simple method to split data: decision trees
6 Using probability to its maximum: naive Bayes algorithm
7 A continuous approach to splitting points: logistic regression
8 Combining building blocks to gain more power: neural networks
9 Finding the best line separation: support vector machines
10 Combining our models to maximize results: bagging and boosting
11 Putting it all together: evaluating and improving models
Appendixes
Appendix A: The math behind the algorithms
About the Technology
Machine learning is a collection of mathematically-based techniques and algorithms that enable computers to identify patterns and generate predictions from data. This revolutionary data analysis approach is behind everything from recommendation systems to self-driving cars, and is transforming industries from finance to art. Whatever your field, knowledge of machine learning is becoming an essential skill. Python, along with its libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn, has become the go-to language for machine learning.About the book
In Grokking Machine Learning, expert machine learning engineer Luis Serrano introduces the most valuable ML techniques and teaches you how to make them work for you. You’ll only need high school math to dive into popular approaches and algorithms. Practical examples illustrate each new concept to ensure you’re grokking as you go. You’ll build models for spam detection, language analysis, and image recognition as you lock in each carefully-selected skill. Packed with easy-to-follow Python-based exercises and mini-projects, this book sets you on the path to becoming a machine learning expert. When you’re done, you’ll have an intuitive understanding of the right approach for any machine learning task or project.What's inside
- Different types of machine learning, including supervised and unsupervised learning
- Algorithms for simplifying, classifying, and splitting data
- Machine learning packages and tools
- Hands-on exercises with fully-explained Python code samples
About the reader
For readers with intermediate programming knowledge in Python or a similar language. No machine learning experience or advanced math skills necessary.About the author
Luis G. Serrano has worked as the Head of Content for Artificial Intelligence at Udacity and as a Machine Learning Engineer at Google, where he worked on the YouTube recommendations system. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor and Masters from the University of Waterloo, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He shares his machine learning expertise on a YouTube channel with over 2 million views and 35 thousand subscribers, and is a frequent speaker at artificial intelligence and data science conferences.
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