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Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning Perform data mining and machine learning efficiently using Python and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280748
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Frank Kane Frank Kane
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Statistics and Probability Refresher, and Python Practice 3. Matplotlib and Advanced Probability Concepts 4. Predictive Models 5. Machine Learning with Python 6. Recommender Systems 7. More Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques 8. Dealing with Real-World Data 9. Apache Spark - Machine Learning on Big Data 10. Testing and Experimental Design

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So, go give it a try! See if you can improve on our initial results there. There's some simple ideas there to try to make those recommendations better, and some much more complicated ones too. Now, there's no right or wrong answer; I'm not going to ask you to turn in your work, and I'm not going to review your work. You know, you decide to play around with it and get some familiarity with it, and experiment, and see what results you get. That's the whole point - just to get you more familiar with using Python for this sort of thing, and get more familiar with the concepts behind item-based collaborative filtering.

We've looked at different recommender systems in this chapter-we ruled out a user-based collaborative filtering system and dove straight in to an item-based system. We then used various functions from pandas to generate and refine...

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