October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Machine learning applications, especially those focused on classification, usually follow the same high-level workflow as shown in the following diagram. The workflow comprises two phases: training the classifier and classification of new instances. Both phases share common steps as you can see in the following diagram:

First, we use a set of Training data, select a representative subset as the training set, preprocess missing data, and extract features. A selected supervised learning algorithm is used to train a model, which is deployed in the second phase. The second phase puts a new data instance through ...