Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "When inspecting the linear model, first check the coef_ attribute."

A block of code is set as follows:

from sklearn import datasets 
iris = datasets.load_iris()  

Since we will be using IPython Notebooks along most of the examples, expect to have always an input (marked as In:) and often an output (marked Out:) from the cell containing the block of code. On your computer you have just to input the ...

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