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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers
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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Boštjan Kaluža, Dr. Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data and problem definition

Data is simply a collection of measurements in the form of numbers, words, measurements, observations, descriptions of things, images, and so on.

Measurement scales

The most common way to represent the data is using a set of attribute-value pairs. Consider the following example:

Bob = {
height: 185cm,
eye color: blue,
hobbies: climbing, sky diving
}

For example, Bob has attributes named height, eye color, and hobbies with values 185cm, blue, climbing, sky diving, respectively.

A set of data can be simply presented as a table, where columns correspond to attributes or features and rows correspond to particular data examples or instances. In supervised machine learning, the attribute whose value we want to predict the outcome, ...

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