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Mastering Machine Learning Concepts

It’s time to give yourself a very generous pat on the back because you’ve officially arrived at the chapter on machine learning concepts. Take a moment to appreciate how far you’ve come, as well as all the preliminary information in the earlier chapters it takes to truly grasp this chapter. Many learners do themselves a disservice by jumping right into machine learning without first understanding its underlying principles (for example, statistics) and preliminary tasks (for example, data wrangling or pre-modeling), so this puts you ahead of the curve as someone well-equipped to understand the inner workings of machine learning algorithms and how and when to use them.

Throughout this chapter, we will cover ...

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