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NumPy Essentials
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NumPy Essentials

by Jaidev Deshpande, Leo (Liang-Huan) Chin, Tanmay Dutta, Shane Holloway
April 2016
Beginner
156 pages
3h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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scikit-learn

Scikit is short for SciPy Toolkits, which are add-on packages for SciPy. It provides a wide range of analytics modules and scikit-learn is one of them; this is by far the most comprehensive machine learning module for Python. scikit-learn provides a simple and efficient way to perform data mining and data analysis, and it has a very active user community.

You can download and install scikit-learn from its official website at http://scikit-learn.org/stable/. If you are using a Python scientific distribution, such as Anaconda, it is included here as well.

Now, it's time for some machine learning using scikit-learn. One of the advantages of scikit-learn is that it provides some sample datasets (demo datasets) for practice. Let's load the ...

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ISBN: 9781784393670