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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python

You're reading from   Building Machine Learning Systems with Python Explore machine learning and deep learning techniques for building intelligent systems using scikit-learn and TensorFlow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623223
Length 406 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Luis Pedro Coelho Luis Pedro Coelho
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Willi Richert Willi Richert
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Matthieu Brucher Matthieu Brucher
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Classifying with Real-World Examples 3. Regression 4. Classification I – Detecting Poor Answers 5. Dimensionality Reduction 6. Clustering – Finding Related Posts 7. Recommendations 8. Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning 9. Classification II – Sentiment Analysis 10. Topic Modeling 11. Classification III – Music Genre Classification 12. Computer Vision 13. Reinforcement Learning 14. Bigger Data 15. Where to Learn More About Machine Learning 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Looking behind accuracy – precision and recall

Let's step back and think again about what we are trying to achieve. Actually, we do not need a classifier that perfectly predicts good and bad answers, as we measured it until now using accuracy. If we can tune the classifier to be particularly good at predicting one class, we could adapt the feedback to the user accordingly. If we, for example, had a classifier that was always right when it predicted an answer to be bad, we would give no feedback until the classifier detected the answer to be bad. On the contrary, if the classifier exceeded in predicting answers to be good, we could show helpful comments to the user at the beginning and remove them when the classifier said that the answer is a good one.

To find out which situation we are in, we have to understand how to measure precision and recall. And to understand...

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