Machine Learning in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Machine learning basics

Figure 1.1. Examples of machine learning in action today, clockwise from top left: face recognition, handwriting digit recognition, spam filtering in email, and product recommendations from Amazon.com

Figure 1.2. Features and target variable identified

Figure 1.3. Starting Python from the command line and importing a module in the Python shell

Chapter 2. Classifying with k-Nearest Neighbors

Figure 2.1. Classifying movies by plotting the number of kicks and kisses in each movie

Figure 2.2. The four data points of our very simple kNN example

Figure 2.3. Dating data without class labels. From this plot it’s difficult to discern which dot belongs to which group.

Figure 2.4. Dating data with markers ...