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Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python
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Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

by Benjamin Johnston, Aaron Jones, Christopher Kruger
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
8h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 8

Market Basket Analysis

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Work with transaction-level data
  • Use market basket analysis in the appropriate context
  • Run the Apriori algorithm and build association rules
  • Perform basic visualizations on association rules
  • Interpret the key metrics of market basket analysis

In this chapter, we will explore a foundational and reliable algorithm for analyzing transaction data.

Introduction

In this chapter, we are going to change direction entirely. The previous chapter, which explored topic models, focused on natural language processing, text data, and applying relatively recently developed algorithms. Most data science practitioners would agree that natural language ...

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ISBN: 9781789952292