Chapter 1. Python Machine Learning Toolkit
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Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
Explain supervised machine learning and describe common examples of machine learning problems
Install and load Python libraries into your development environment for use in analysis and machine learning problems
Access and interpret the documentation of a subset of Python libraries, including the powerful pandas library
Create an IPython Jupyter notebook and use executable code cells and markdown cells to create a dynamic report
Load an external data source using pandas and use a variety of methods to search, filter, and compute descriptive statistics of the data
Clean a data source of mediocre quality and gauge the potential impact of various issues within the data source
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This chapter introduces supervised learning, Jupyter notebooks, and some of the most common pandas data methods.