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Python Machine Learning By Example

You're reading from   Python Machine Learning By Example Implement machine learning algorithms and techniques to build intelligent systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789616729
Length 382 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Yuxi (Hayden) Liu Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals of Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Machine Learning and Python 3. Section 2: Practical Python Machine Learning By Example
4. Exploring the 20 Newsgroups Dataset with Text Analysis Techniques 5. Mining the 20 Newsgroups Dataset with Clustering and Topic Modeling Algorithms 6. Detecting Spam Email with Naive Bayes 7. Classifying Newsgroup Topics with Support Vector Machines 8. Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Tree-Based Algorithms 9. Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Logistic Regression 10. Scaling Up Prediction to Terabyte Click Logs 11. Stock Price Prediction with Regression Algorithms 12. Section 3: Python Machine Learning Best Practices
13. Machine Learning Best Practices 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Topic modeling using LDA

Let's explore another popular topic modeling algorithm, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). LDA is a generative probabilistic graphical model that explains each input document by means of a mixture of topics with certain probabilities. Again, topic in topic modeling means a collection of words with a certain connection. In other words, LDA basically deals with two probability values, P(term | topic) and P(topic | document). This can be difficult to understand at the beginning. So, let's start from the bottom, the end result of an LDA model.

Let's take a look at the following set of documents:

Document 1: This restaurant is famous for fish and chips.
Document 2: I had fish and rice for lunch.
Document 3: My sister bought me a cute kitten.
Document 4: Some research shows eating too much rice is bad.
Document 5: I always forget to feed fish to my...
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