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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

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the essentials of machine learning. We started with some easy, but still quite effective, classifiers (linear and logistic regressors, Naive Bayes, and K-Nearest Neighbors). Then, we moved on to the more advanced ones (SVM). We explained how to compose weak classifiers together (ensembles, Random Forests, Gradient Tree Boosting) and touched on three awesome gradient-boosted classifiers: XGboost, LightGBM, and CatBoost. Finally, we had a peek at the algorithms used in big data, clustering, and NLP.

In the next chapter, we are going to introduce you to the basics of visualization with Matplotlib, how to operate EDA with pandas and achieve beautiful visualizations with Seaborn, and how to set up a web server to provide information on demand.

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