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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

Normalizing numerical data

This is a very quick section: I just want to remind you about the importance of normalizing your data, making sure that your various input feature data is on the same scale, and is comparable. And, sometimes it matters, and sometimes it doesn't. But, you just have to be cognizant of when it does. Just keep that in the back of your head because sometimes it will affect the quality of your results if you don't.

So, sometimes models will be based on several different numerical attributes. If you remember multivariant models, we might have different attributes of a car that we're looking at, and they might not be directly comparable measurements. Or, for example, if we're looking at relationships between ages and incomes, ages might range from 0 to 100, but incomes in dollars might range from 0 to billions, and depending on the currency...

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