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Programming Machine Learning
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Programming Machine Learning

by Paolo Perrotta
March 2020
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
8h 38m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Getting to Know the Problem

Our friend Roberto owns a cozy little pizzeria in Berlin. Every day at noon, he checks the number of reserved seats and decides how much pizza dough to prepare for dinner. Too much dough, and it goes wasted; too little, and he runs out of pizzas. In either case, he loses money.

It’s not always easy to gauge the number of pizzas from the reservations. Many customers don’t reserve a table, or they eat something other than pizza. Roberto knows that there is some kind of link between those numbers, in that more reservations generally mean more pizzas—but other than that, he’s not sure what the exact relation is.

Roberto dreams of a program that looks at historical data, grasps the relation between reserved seats and pizzas, ...

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