scikit-learn : Machine Learning Simplified

Chapter 2. Supervised Learning

In Chapter 1, Machine Learning – A Gentle Introduction, we sketched the general idea of a supervised learning algorithm. We have the training data where each instance has an input (a set of attributes) and a desired output (a target class). Then we use this data to train a model that will predict the same target class for new unseen instances.

Supervised learning methods are nowadays a standard tool in a wide range of disciplines, from medical diagnosis to natural language processing, image recognition, and searching for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this chapter we will present several methods applied to several real-world examples by using some of the many algorithms implemented in scikit-learn ...