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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Automated Machine Learning A beginner's guide to building automated machine learning systems using AutoML and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788629898
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Umit Mert Cakmak Umit Mert Cakmak
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Sibanjan Das Sibanjan Das
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Preface 1. Introduction to AutoML 2. Introduction to Machine Learning Using Python FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Preprocessing 4. Automated Algorithm Selection 5. Hyperparameter Optimization 6. Creating AutoML Pipelines 7. Dive into Deep Learning 8. Critical Aspects of ML and Data Science Projects 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

FunctionTransformer

A FunctionTransformer is used to define a user-defined function that consumes the data from the pipeline and returns the result of this function to the next stage of the pipeline. This is used for stateless transformations, such as taking the square or log of numbers, defining custom scaling functions, and so on.

In the following example, we will build a pipeline using the CustomLog function and the predefined preprocessing method StandardScaler:

  1. We import all the required libraries as we did in our previous examples. The only addition here is the FunctionTransformer method from the sklearn.preprocessing library. This method is used to execute a custom transformer function and stitch it together to other stages in a pipeline:
import numpy as np
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn import preprocessing...
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