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Python Machine Learning Blueprints

You're reading from   Python Machine Learning Blueprints Put your machine learning concepts to the test by developing real-world smart projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994170
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Roman Michael Roman
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Alexander Combs Alexander Combs
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Saurabh Chhajed Saurabh Chhajed
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Python Machine Learning Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Build an App to Find Underpriced Apartments 3. Build an App to Find Cheap Airfares 4. Forecast the IPO Market Using Logistic Regression 5. Create a Custom Newsfeed 6. Predict whether Your Content Will Go Viral 7. Use Machine Learning to Forecast the Stock Market 8. Classifying Images with Convolutional Neural Networks 9. Building a Chatbot 10. Build a Recommendation Engine 11. What's Next? 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Inspecting and preparing the data

Let's begin by inspecting the data points for each of our columns. We want to look for odd and outlier values in our data. We will start by looking at the bedroom and bathroom columns:

  1. In the following code, we look at the unique values for bedrooms:
df['beds'].unique() 

The preceding code results in the following output:

  1. Now, let's look at bathrooms. We do that in the following code:
df['baths'].unique() 

The preceding code results in the following output:

  1. Based on the output from the two preceding queries, we see that we need to correct some items that have a leading underscore. Let's do that now:
df['beds'] = df['beds'].map(lambda x: x[1:] if x.startswith('_') else x) 
df['baths'] = df['baths'].map(lambda x: x[1:] if x.startswith('_') else...
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