To get the most out of this book

The only thing you need before you start reading is your inquisitiveness to know more about ML. Apart from that, prior exposure to Python programming and ML fundamentals are required to get the best out of this book, but they are not mandatory. You should have Python 3.5 and Jupyter Notebook installed.

If there is a specific requirement for any chapter, it is mentioned in the opening section.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "As an example, let's use StandardScaler from the sklearn.preprocessing module to standardize the values of the satisfaction_level column."

A block of code is set as follows:

{'algorithm': 'auto',
 'copy_x': True,
 'init': 'k-means++',
 'max_iter': 300,
 'n_clusters': 2,
 'n_init': 10,
 'n_jobs': 1,
 'precompute_distances': 'auto',
 'random_state': None,
 'tol': 0.0001,
 'verbose': 0}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

pip install nltk

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "You will get a NLTK Downloader popup. Select all from the Identifier section and wait for installation to be completed."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.