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Data Science for Web3

You're reading from   Data Science for Web3 A comprehensive guide to decoding blockchain data with data analysis basics and machine learning cases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637546
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 Web3 Data Analysis Basics
2. Chapter 1: Where Data and Web3 Meet FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with On-Chain Data 4. Chapter 3: Working with Off-Chain Data 5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Digital Uniqueness of NFTs – Games, Art, and Identity 6. Chapter 5: Exploring Analytics on DeFi 7. Part 2 Web3 Machine Learning Cases
8. Chapter 6: Preparing and Exploring Our Data 9. Chapter 7: A Primer on Machine Learning and Deep Learning 10. Chapter 8: Sentiment Analysis – NLP and Crypto News 11. Chapter 9: Generative Art for NFTs 12. Chapter 10: A Primer on Security and Fraud Detection 13. Chapter 11: Price Prediction with Time Series 14. Chapter 12: Marketing Discovery with Graphs 15. Part 3 Appendix
16. Chapter 13: Building Experience with Crypto Data – BUIDL 17. Chapter 14: Interviews with Web3 Data Leaders 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix 1
1. Appendix 2
2. Appendix 3

Introducing machine learning

The definition of machine learning, as provided by Computer Science Wiki, is “a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that “learn” – that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine learning algorithms build a model based on sample data, known as training data, in order to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to do so.”

(Source: https://computersciencewiki.org/index.php/Machine_learning)

Professor Jason Brownlee defines deep learning as “a subfield of machine learning concerned with algorithms inspired by the structure and function of the brain called artificial neural networks.” Deep learning is distinguishable from other machine learning methods because it uses artificial neural networks as a basis for its methods.

The relationship between these two fields...

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