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Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python Master the complete predictive analytics process, from problem definition to model deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138719
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alvaro Fuentes Alvaro Fuentes
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Predictive Analytics Process FREE CHAPTER 2. Problem Understanding and Data Preparation 3. Dataset Understanding – Exploratory Data Analysis 4. Predicting Numerical Values with Machine Learning 5. Predicting Categories with Machine Learning 6. Introducing Neural Nets for Predictive Analytics 7. Model Evaluation 8. Model Tuning and Improving Performance 9. Implementing a Model with Dash 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Model Tuning and Improving Performance

This chapter is about some of the things you can do in order to improve the quality of the predictions our models make.

This chapter is divided into two main sections. In the first, we discuss hyperparameter tuning, which is the way to choose those values that define our model that are not directly learned from data. We start by discussing the simplest case, which is how to tune one parameter, and then we move on and show one of the most popular methods for optimizing more than one hyperparameter at the same time—we use the concept of cross-validation and k-fold cross-validation in this section, so it is important that you have learned these concepts from the previous chapters.

In the second section, we show how sometimes trying a different model can improve the quality of our predictions. Then, we use some of the information we got...

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