Machine Learning for the Web

Chapter 1. Introduction to Practical Machine Learning Using Python

In the technology industry, the skill of analyzing and mining commercial data is becoming more and more important. All the companies that are related to the online world generate data that can be exploited to improve their business, or can be sold to other companies. This huge amount of information, which can be commercially useful, needs to be restructured and analyzed using the expertise of data science (or data mining) professionals. Data science employs techniques known as machine learning algorithms to transform the data in models, which are able to predict the behavior of certain entities that are highly considered by the business environment. This book is about these algorithms ...