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Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

You're reading from   Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python Exploit the power of data in your business by building advanced predictive modeling applications with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785882715
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joseph Babcock Joseph Babcock
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Preface 1. From Data to Decisions – Getting Started with Analytic Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization in Python 3. Finding Patterns in the Noise – Clustering and Unsupervised Learning 4. Connecting the Dots with Models – Regression Methods 5. Putting Data in its Place – Classification Methods and Analysis 6. Words and Pixels – Working with Unstructured Data 7. Learning from the Bottom Up – Deep Networks and Unsupervised Features 8. Sharing Models with Prediction Services 9. Reporting and Testing – Iterating on Analytic Systems Index

Exploring categorical and numerical data in IPython

We will start our explorations in IPython by loading a text file into a DataFrame, calculating some summary statistics, and visualizing distributions. For this exercise we'll use a set of movie ratings and metadata from the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/) to investigate what factors might correlate with high ratings for films on this website. Such information might be helpful, for example, in developing a recommendation system based on this kind of user feedback.

Installing IPython notebook

To follow along with the examples, you should have a Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX operating system installed on your computer and access to the Internet. There are a number of options available to install IPython: since each of these resources includes installation guides, we provide a summary of the available sources and direct the reader to the relevant documentation for more in-depth instructions.

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