Python Machine Learning Cookbook: Over 100 recipes to progress from smart data analytics to deep learning using real-world datasets, Edition 2

Giuseppe Ciaburro · Prateek Joshi

Mar 2019 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Discover powerful ways to effectively solve real-world machine learning problems using key libraries including scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorchKey Features

• Learn and implement machine learning algorithms in a variety of real-life scenarios
• Cover a range of tasks catering to supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning techniques
• Find easy-to-follow code solutions for tackling common and not-so-common challenges

Book DescriptionThis eagerly anticipated second edition of the popular Python Machine Learning Cookbook will enable you to adopt a fresh approach to dealing with real-world machine learning and deep learning tasks. With the help of over 100 recipes, you will learn to build powerful machine learning applications using modern libraries from the Python ecosystem. The book will also guide you on how to implement various machine learning algorithms for classification, clustering, and recommendation engines, using a recipe-based approach. With emphasis on practical solutions, dedicated sections in the book will help you to apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to real-world problems. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with recipes that teach you advanced techniques including reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and automated machine learning. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to apply machine learning techniques and leverage the full capabilities of the Python ecosystem through real-world examples.What you will learn

• Use predictive modeling and apply it to real-world problems
• Explore data visualization techniques to interact with your data
• Learn how to build a recommendation engine
• Understand how to interact with text data and build models to analyze it
• Work with speech data and recognize spoken words using Hidden Markov Models
• Get well versed with reinforcement learning, automated ML, and transfer learning
• Work with image data and build systems for image recognition and biometric face recognition
• Use deep neural networks to build an optical character recognition system

Who this book is for

This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers, deep learning enthusiasts and Python programmers who want to solve real-world challenges using machine-learning techniques and algorithms. If you are facing challenges at work and want ready-to-use code solutions to cover key tasks in machine learning and the deep learning domain, then this book is what you need. Familiarity with Python programming and machine learning concepts will be useful.

About the author

Giuseppe Ciaburro holds a PhD and two master's degrees. He works at the Built Environment Control Laboratory - Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". He has over 25 years of work experience in programming, first in the field of combustion and then in acoustics and noise control. His core programming knowledge is in MATLAB, Python and R. As an expert in AI applications to acoustics and noise control problems, Giuseppe has wide experience in researching and teaching. He has several publications to his credit: monographs, scientific journals, and thematic conferences. He was recently included in the world's top 2% scientists list by Stanford University (2022).

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.