Introducing Data Science

Chapter 3. Machine learning

This chapter covers

• Understanding why data scientists use machine learning
• Identifying the most important Python libraries for machine learning
• Discussing the process for model building
• Using machine learning techniques
• Gaining hands-on experience with machine learning

Do you know how computers learn to protect you from malicious persons? Computers filter out more than 60% of your emails and can learn to do an even better job at protecting you over time.

Can you explicitly teach a computer to recognize persons in a picture? It’s possible but impractical to encode all the possible ways to recognize a person, but you’ll soon see that the possibilities are nearly endless. To succeed, you’ll need to add a new ...