Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
| Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapter 4 Training Data, "Sampling" The equation for Importance Sampling |
The last term of the derivation should not have "x" between the square brackets. "x" is already absorbed into the expectation E_Q(x) per definition of expectation. |
Daniel Wu | Dec 11, 2022 | |
| Page Chapter 6. Model Development and Offline Evaluation 4th paragraph |
In "Chapter 6. Model Development and Offline Evaluation", on the 4th paragraph, the author wrote "slide-based evaluation" instead of "slice-based evaluation". |
Mustafa Murat Arat | Feb 26, 2023 | |
| Page Chapter 6. Model Development and Offline Evaluation 4th paragraph |
In "Chapter 6. Model Development and Offline Evaluation", on the 4th paragraph, the author wrote "slide-based evaluation" instead of "slice-based evaluation". |
Mustafa Murat Arat | Feb 26, 2023 | |
| Page p.50 2nd paragraph, first sentence |
The second paragraph opens with "Knowing how to collect, process, store, retrieve, and process an increasingly growing amount of data" and while it often seems like you are processing and processing data I don't think it should be in there twice, even if you process it at different places in the process. |
Anonymous | Mar 23, 2023 | |
| Page p 122 last sentence of page |
Where it reads "you might need subject matter expertise with banking and frauds to be able to come up with useful features" it should probably read "banking and fraud". |
Anonymous | Mar 27, 2023 | |
| Mobi | Page Chapter 5 - "Common Feature Engineering Operations" - "Scaling" 3rd paragraph |
"This process is called feature scaling (...) Neglecting to do so can cause your model to make gibberish predictions, especially with classical algorithms like gradient-boosted trees and logistic regression" |
Pedro Osorio | Jun 30, 2023 |
| Printed | Page 25 2nd paragraph |
In the second sentence its written "an ML system[...]" which I think should be "a ML system[...]". |
Prakash Chaudhary | Dec 13, 2022 |
| Page 62 2nd paragraph in text box |
I think the word "with" is missing at the end of the sentence "You give the system your data (inputs and outputs) and specify the number of models you want to experiment." |
Anonymous | Mar 23, 2023 | |
| ePub | Page 152 Figure 4-3 |
The percentage should be either 0.63 or 63%, but it is actually 0.63% which is incorrect |
Igor | Jul 25, 2022 |
| Printed | Page 242 Footnote 29 |
In the printed version of the book, footnote 29 reads “…as the last layer for your classification tax”. Tax is a typo and should be “task” instead. |
Daniel Levenson | Jan 23, 2023 |