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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Machine Learning Cookbook Over 100 recipes to progress from smart data analytics to deep learning using real-world datasets

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808452
Length 642 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Giuseppe Ciaburro Giuseppe Ciaburro
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Prateek Joshi Prateek Joshi
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Preface 1. The Realm of Supervised Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Constructing a Classifier 3. Predictive Modeling 4. Clustering with Unsupervised Learning 5. Visualizing Data 6. Building Recommendation Engines 7. Analyzing Text Data 8. Speech Recognition 9. Dissecting Time Series and Sequential Data 10. Analyzing Image Content 11. Biometric Face Recognition 12. Reinforcement Learning Techniques 13. Deep Neural Networks 14. Unsupervised Representation Learning 15. Automated Machine Learning and Transfer Learning 16. Unlocking Production Issues 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Slicing time series data

Slice and dice are two terms that refer to a dataset meaning to divide a large DataFrame into smaller parts or examine them from different points of view to understand it better. The term comes from culinary jargon and describes two types of knife skills that every chef has to master. To slice means to cut, while to dice means to cut food into very small and uniform sections, and the two actions are often performed in sequence. In data analysis, the term slice and dice generally involves a systematic reduction of a large dataset into smaller parts to extract more information.

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In this recipe, we will learn how to slice time series data. This will help you extract information from various...

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