Foundational Python for Data Science

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Machine Learning Libraries

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

In This Chapter

• Overview of popular machine learning libraries

• Introduction to Scikit-learn

• Overview of the machine learning process

Machine learning consists of letting a computer find a way to solve a problem using data. In contrast, with traditional programming, the programmer defines, in code, the way to find a solution, rather than the solution itself. This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the popular libraries used for machine learning. These libraries implement the algorithms used to create and train machine ...