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Python Machine Learning By Example
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Python Machine Learning By Example

by Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Ivan Idris
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
254 pages
6h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preprocessing, exploration, and feature engineering

Data mining, a buzzword in the 1990 is the predecessor of data science (the science of data). One of the methodologies popular in the data mining community is called cross industry standard process for data mining (CRISP DM). CRISP DM was created in 1996, and is still used today. I am not endorsing CRISP DM, however I like its general framework. The CRISP DM consists of the following phases, which are not mutually exclusive and can occur in parallel:

  • Business understanding: This phase is often taken care of by specialized domain experts. Usually we have a business person formulate a business problem, such as selling more units of a certain product.
  • Data understanding: This is also a phase, ...
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ISBN: 9781783553112