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Mastering Python Data Analysis
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Mastering Python Data Analysis

by Magnus Vilhelm Persson, Luiz Felipe Martins
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
284 pages
6h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7. Supervised and Unsupervised Learning

The amount of data collected for various purposes in society has increased enormously in the last few decades. Machine learning is a way of making sense of all this data by leveraging what we know about the data. In the generalized picture of machine learning, the computer first learns from a given dataset (training) and creates a generalized model to represent it. With this model, it is possible to predict various outcomes, results, and groupings (classes). In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Linear regression with machine learning algorithms
  • Clustering with machine learning algorithms
  • Feature selection—a preprocessing method to select what is most important
  • Classification with different ...
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