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Go Machine Learning Projects

You're reading from  Go Machine Learning Projects

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993401
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Xuanyi Chew Xuanyi Chew
Profile icon Xuanyi Chew

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface 1. How to Solve All Machine Learning Problems 2. Linear Regression - House Price Prediction 3. Classification - Spam Email Detection 4. Decomposing CO2 Trends Using Time Series Analysis 5. Clean Up Your Personal Twitter Timeline by Clustering Tweets 6. Neural Networks - MNIST Handwriting Recognition 7. Convolutional Neural Networks - MNIST Handwriting Recognition 8. Basic Facial Detection 9. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog - Using External Services 10. What's Next? 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Clustering

The purpose of this project is to clean up the amount of tweets that I have to read. If there is a reading budget of 100 tweets, I don't want to be reading 50 tweets on the same topic; they may well represent different viewpoints, but in general for skimming purposes, are not relevant to my interests. Clustering provides a good solution to this problem.

First, if the tweets are clustered, the 50 tweets on the same topic will be grouped in the same cluster. This allows me to dig in deeper if I wish. Otherwise, I can just skip those tweets and move on.

In this project, we wish to use K-means. To do so, we'll use Marcin Praski's clusters library. To install it, simply run go get -u github.com/mpraski/clusters. It's a good library, and it comes built in with multiple clustering algorithms. I introduced K-means before, but we're also going to be...

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