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Python Data Science Essentials

You're reading from   Python Data Science Essentials A practitioner's guide covering essential data science principles, tools, and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537864
Length 472 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Luca Massaron Luca Massaron
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Alberto Boschetti Alberto Boschetti
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Munging 3. The Data Pipeline 4. Machine Learning 5. Visualization, Insights, and Results 6. Social Network Analysis 7. Deep Learning Beyond the Basics 8. Spark for Big Data 9. Strengthen Your Python Foundations 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

An overview of unsupervised learning

In all the methods we've seen so far, every sample or observation has its own target label or value. In some other cases, the dataset is unlabeled and, to extract the structure of the data, you need an unsupervised approach. In this section, we're going to introduce two methods to perform clustering, as they are among the most used methods for unsupervised learning.

It is useful to bear in mind that often the terms clustering and unsupervised learning are considered synonymous, though, actually, unsupervised learning has a larger meaning.

K-means

The first method that we'll introduce is named K-means, the most commonly used clustering algorithm despite its inevitable shortcomings...

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