Hands-on Machine Learning with Python: Implement Neural Network Solutions with Scikit-learn and PyTorch

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A. Pajankar, A. JoshiHands-on Machine Learning with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7921-2_6

6. Preparing Data for Machine Learning

Ashwin Pajankar¹   and Aditya Joshi²

(1)

Nashik, Maharashtra, India

(2)

Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India

 

As we saw in the previous chapter, data collection, preparation, and normalization is one of the primary steps in any machine learning experiment. Almost all of the machine learning algorithms (there are some interesting exceptions though) work with vectors of numbers. Even the other algorithms or tools would require data to be formatted in a specific way. So regardless of the kind of original data you are working with, you ...