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Python Machine Learning By Example

You're reading from   Python Machine Learning By Example The easiest way to get into machine learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783553112
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yuxi (Hayden) Liu Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Ivan Idris Ivan Idris
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python and Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the 20 Newsgroups Dataset with Text Analysis Algorithms 3. Spam Email Detection with Naive Bayes 4. News Topic Classification with Support Vector Machine 5. Click-Through Prediction with Tree-Based Algorithms 6. Click-Through Prediction with Logistic Regression 7. Stock Price Prediction with Regression Algorithms 8. Best Practices

Visualization

It's good to visualize to get a general idea of how the data is structured, what possible issues may arise, and if there are any irregularities that we have to take care of.

In the context of multiple topics or categories, it is important to know what the distribution of topics is. A uniform class distribution is the easiest to deal with because there are no under-represented or over-represented categories. However, we frequently have a skewed distribution with one or more categories dominating. We herein use the seaborn package (https://seaborn.pydata.org/) to compute the histogram of categories and plot it utilizing the matplotlib package (https://matplotlib.org/). We can install both packages via pip. Now let’s display the distribution of the classes as follows:

>>> import seaborn as sns
>>> sns.distplot(groups.target)
<matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot object...
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