Python Machine Learning Cookbook

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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. The Realm of Supervised Learning

Introduction

Preprocessing data using different techniques

Label encoding

Building a linear regressor

Computing regression accuracy

Achieving model persistence

Building a ridge regressor

Building a polynomial regressor

Estimating housing prices

Computing the relative importance of features

Estimating bicycle demand distribution

Chapter 2. Constructing a Classifier

Introduction

Building a simple classifier

Building a logistic regression classifier

Building a Naive Bayes classifier

Splitting the dataset for training and testing

Evaluating the accuracy using cross-validation

Visualizing the confusion matrix

Extracting the performance report

Evaluating cars based on their characteristics

Extracting validation curves

Extracting learning curves

Estimating the income bracket

Chapter 3. Predictive Modeling

Introduction

Building a linear classifier using Support Vector Machine (SVMs)

Building a nonlinear classifier using SVMs

Tackling class imbalance

Extracting confidence measurements

Finding optimal hyperparameters

Building an event predictor

Estimating traffic

Chapter 4. Clustering with Unsupervised Learning

Introduction

Clustering data using the k-means algorithm

Compressing an image using vector quantization

Building a Mean Shift clustering model

Grouping data using agglomerative clustering

Evaluating the performance of clustering algorithms

Automatically estimating the number of clusters using DBSCAN algorithm

Finding patterns in stock market data

Building a customer segmentation model

Chapter 5. Building Recommendation Engines

Introduction

Building function compositions for data processing

Building machine learning pipelines

Finding the nearest neighbors

Constructing a k-nearest neighbors classifier

Constructing a k-nearest neighbors regressor

Computing the Euclidean distance score

Computing the Pearson correlation score

Finding similar users in the dataset

Generating movie recommendations

Chapter 6. Analyzing Text Data

Introduction

Preprocessing data using tokenization

Stemming text data

Converting text to its base form using lemmatization

Dividing text using chunking

Building a bag-of-words model

Building a text classifier

Identifying the gender

Analyzing the sentiment of a sentence

Identifying patterns in text using topic modeling

Chapter 7. Speech Recognition

Introduction

Reading and plotting audio data

Transforming audio signals into the frequency domain

Generating audio signals with custom parameters

Synthesizing music

Extracting frequency domain features

Building Hidden Markov Models

Building a speech recognizer

Chapter 8. Dissecting Time Series and Sequential Data

Introduction

Transforming data into the time series format

Slicing time series data

Operating on time series data

Extracting statistics from time series data

Building Hidden Markov Models for sequential data

Building Conditional Random Fields for sequential text data

Analyzing stock market data using Hidden Markov Models

Chapter 9. Image Content Analysis