Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson

By : James D. Miller

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Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson

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By: James D. Miller

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Overview of this book

IBM Cloud is a collection of cloud computing services for data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). This book is a complete guide to help you become well versed with machine learning on the IBM Cloud using Python. Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson starts with supervised and unsupervised machine learning concepts, in addition to providing you with an overview of IBM Cloud and Watson Machine Learning. You'll gain insights into running various techniques, such as K-means clustering, K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and time series prediction in IBM Cloud with real-world examples. The book will then help you delve into creating a Spark pipeline in Watson Studio. You will also be guided through deep learning and neural network principles on the IBM Cloud using TensorFlow. With the help of NLP techniques, you can then brush up on building a chatbot. In later chapters, you will cover three powerful case studies, including the facial expression classification platform, the automated classification of lithofacies, and the multi-biometric identity authentication platform, helping you to become well versed with these methodologies. By the end of this book, you will be ready to build efficient machine learning solutions on the IBM Cloud and draw insights from the data at hand using real-world examples.

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Section 1: Introduction and Foundation

Introduction to IBM Cloud

Understanding IBM Cloud

Accessing the IBM Cloud

Cloud resources

The IBM Cloud and Watson Machine Learning services

Setting up the environment

Watson Studio Cloud

Setting up a new project

Data visualization tutorial

Summary

Feature Extraction - A Bag of Tricks

Preprocessing

Dimensional reduction

Data fusion

A bag of tricks

Summary

Supervised Machine Learning Models for Your Data

Model selection

Testing the model

Classification

Regression

Testing the predictive capability

Summary

Implementing Unsupervised Algorithms

Unsupervised learning

Semi-supervised learning

Anomaly detection

Online or batch learning

Summary

Section 2: Tools and Ingredients for Machine Learning in IBM Cloud

Machine Learning Workouts on IBM Cloud

Watson Studio and Python

Setting up the environment

Data cleansing and preparation

K-means clustering using Python

K-nearest neighbors

Time series prediction example

Summary

Using Spark with IBM Watson Studio

Introduction to Apache Spark

Watson Studio and Spark

Creating a Spark-enabled notebook

Creating a Spark pipeline in Watson Studio

Data preparation

A data analysis and visualization example

Summary

Deep Learning Using TensorFlow on the IBM Cloud

Introduction to deep learning

TensorFlow basics

Neural networks and TensorFlow

An example

TensorFlow and image classifications

Additional preparation

Summary

Section 3: Real-Life Complete Case Studies

Creating a Facial Expression Platform on IBM Cloud

Understanding facial expression classification

Exploring expression databases

Preprocessing faces

Preparing the environment

Learning the expression classifier

Summary

The Automated Classification of Lithofacies Formation Using ML

Understanding lithofacies

Exploring the data

Training the classifier

Evaluating the classifier

Summary

Building a Cloud-Based Multibiometric Identity Authentication Platform

Understanding biometrics

Exploring biometric data

Feature extraction

Multimodal fusion

Our example

Summary

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Additional preparation

In this section, we will take care of a bit more housekeeping that is required before we can successfully run the project.

Pillow is a Python Imaging Library (PIL), which provides support for opening, manipulating, and saving images. The current version identifies and reads a large number of formats.

This project utilizes pillow and requires at least version 5.3.0 to be installed. To ensure that the notebook uses this version, we need to run the following commands:

# --- we need pillow version of 5.3.0 to run this project
# --- this code will uninstall the current version:
!pip uninstall -y Pillow
# --- install the 5.3.0 version
!pip install Pillow==5.3.0
# --- import the new one
import PIL
# --- Should print 5.3.0. If it doesn't, then restart the kernel 
print(PIL.PILLOW_VERSION)

The code uninstalls the currently installed version of Pillow, installs version...