Chapter 13: Python and Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that is based on building models by learning patterns from data and then using those models to make predictions. It is one of the most popular AI techniques for helping humans as well as businesses in many ways. For example, it is being used for medical diagnosis, image processing, speech recognition, predicting threats, data mining, classification, and many more scenarios. We all understand the importance and usefulness of machine learning in our lives. Python, being a concise but powerful language, is being used extensively to implement machine learning models. Python's ability to process and prepare data using libraries such as NumPy, pandas, and PySpark makes it a preferred choice for developers for building and training ML models.

In this chapter, we will discuss using Python for machine learning tasks in an optimized way. This is especially important because training...