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Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning Perform data mining and machine learning efficiently using Python and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280748
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Frank Kane Frank Kane
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Statistics and Probability Refresher, and Python Practice 3. Matplotlib and Advanced Probability Concepts 4. Predictive Models 5. Machine Learning with Python 6. Recommender Systems 7. More Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques 8. Dealing with Real-World Data 9. Apache Spark - Machine Learning on Big Data 10. Testing and Experimental Design

Using SVM to cluster people by using scikit-learn

Let's try out some support vector machines here. Fortunately, it's a lot easier to use than it is to understand. We're going to go back to the same example I used for k-means clustering, where I'm going to create some fabricated cluster data about ages and incomes of a hundred random people.

If you want to go back to the k-means clustering section, you can learn more about kind of the idea behind this code that generates the fake data. And if you're ready, please consider the following code:

import numpy as np 
 
#Create fake income/age clusters for N people in k clusters 
def createClusteredData(N, k): 
    pointsPerCluster = float(N)/k 
    X = [] 
    y = [] 
    for i in range (k): 
        incomeCentroid = np.random.uniform(20000.0, 200000.0) 
        ageCentroid = np.random.uniform(20.0, 70.0) 
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