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F. NelliPython Data Analyticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9532-8_8

8. Machine Learning with scikit-learn

Fabio Nelli1  
(1)
Rome, Italy
 

In the chain of processes that make up data analysis, the construction phase of predictive models and their validation are done by a powerful library called scikit-learn. In this chapter, you’ll see some examples that illustrate the basic construction of predictive models with some different methods.

The scikit-learn Library

scikit-learn is a Python module that integrates many machine learning algorithms. This library was developed initially by Cournapeu in 2007, but the first real release was in 2010.

This library ...

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