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Python Machine Learning by Example

Python Machine Learning by Example

By : Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Python Machine Learning by Example

Python Machine Learning by Example

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By: Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Overview of this book

Python Machine Learning By Example, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive gateway into the world of machine learning (ML). With six new chapters, on topics including movie recommendation engine development with Naïve Bayes, recognizing faces with support vector machine, predicting stock prices with artificial neural networks, categorizing images of clothing with convolutional neural networks, predicting with sequences using recurring neural networks, and leveraging reinforcement learning for making decisions, the book has been considerably updated for the latest enterprise requirements. At the same time, this book provides actionable insights on the key fundamentals of ML with Python programming. Hayden applies his expertise to demonstrate implementations of algorithms in Python, both from scratch and with libraries. Each chapter walks through an industry-adopted application. With the help of realistic examples, you will gain an understanding of the mechanics of ML techniques in areas such as exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, classification, regression, clustering, and NLP. By the end of this ML Python book, you will have gained a broad picture of the ML ecosystem and will be well-versed in the best practices of applying ML techniques to solve problems.
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Exploring Naïve Bayes

The Naïve Bayes classifier belongs to the family of probabilistic classifiers. It computes the probabilities of each predictive feature (also referred to as an attribute or signal) of the data belonging to each class in order to make a prediction of probability distribution over all classes. Of course, from the resulting probability distribution, we can conclude the most likely class that the data sample is associated with. What Naïve Bayes does specifically, as its name indicates, is as follows:

  • Bayes: As in, it maps the probability of observed input features given a possible class to the probability of the class given observed pieces of evidence based on Bayes' theorem.
  • Naïve: As in, it simplifies probability computation by assuming that predictive features are mutually independent.

I will explain Bayes' theorem with examples in the next section.

Learning Bayes' theorem...

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