You're reading from Python Machine Learning by Example Build intelligent systems using Python, TensorFlow 2, PyTorch, and scikit-learn

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209718

Length 526 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

PyTorch

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Machine Learning and Python

2. Building a Movie Recommendation Engine with Naïve Bayes FREE CHAPTER

3. Recognizing Faces with Support Vector Machine

4. Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Tree-Based Algorithms

5. Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Logistic Regression

6. Scaling Up Prediction to Terabyte Click Logs

7. Predicting Stock Prices with Regression Algorithms

8. Predicting Stock Prices with Artificial Neural Networks

9. Mining the 20 Newsgroups Dataset with Text Analysis Techniques

10. Discovering Underlying Topics in the Newsgroups Dataset with Clustering and Topic Modeling

11. Machine Learning Best Practices

12. Categorizing Images of Clothing with Convolutional Neural Networks

13. Making Predictions with Sequences Using Recurrent Neural Networks

14. Making Decisions in Complex Environments with Reinforcement Learning

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

16. Index

A brief overview of the stock market and stock prices

The stock of a corporation signifies ownership in the corporation. A single share of the stock represents a claim on the fractional assets and the earnings of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares. For example, if an investor owns 50 shares of stock in a company that has, in total, 1,000 outstanding shares, that investor (or shareholder) would own and have a claim on 5% of the company's assets and earnings.

Stocks of a company can be traded between shareholders and other parties via stock exchanges and organizations. Major stock exchanges include New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, London Stock Exchange Group, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The prices that a stock is traded at fluctuate essentially due to the law of supply and demand. At any one moment, the supply is the number of shares that are in the hands of public investors, the demand is the number of shares investors...