You're reading from Artificial Intelligence with Python Your complete guide to building intelligent apps using Python 3.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839219535

Length 618 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

TensorFlow

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (2):

Prateek Joshi

Alberto Artasanchez

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

2. Fundamental Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence FREE CHAPTER

3. Machine Learning Pipelines

4. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering

5. Classification and Regression Using Supervised Learning

6. Predictive Analytics with Ensemble Learning

7. Detecting Patterns with Unsupervised Learning

8. Building Recommender Systems

9. Logic Programming

10. Heuristic Search Techniques

11. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming

12. Artificial Intelligence on the Cloud

13. Building Games with Artificial Intelligence

14. Building a Speech Recognizer

15. Natural Language Processing

16. Chatbots

17. Sequential Data and Time Series Analysis

18. Image Recognition

19. Neural Networks

20. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks

21. Recurrent Neural Networks and Other Deep Learning Models

22. Creating Intelligent Agents with Reinforcement Learning

23. Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Outlier management

Home prices are a good domain to analyze to understand why we need to pay special attention to outliers. Regardless of what region of the world you live in, most houses in your neighborhood are going to fall in a certain range and they are going to have certain characteristics. Maybe something like this:

1 to 4 bedrooms
1 kitchen
500 to 3000 square feet
1 to 3 bathrooms

The average home price in the US in 2019 is $226,800. And you can guess that kind of house will probably share some of the characteristics above. But there might also be a couple houses that are outliers. Maybe a house that has 10 or 20 bedrooms. Some of these houses might be a 1 million or 10 million dollars, depending on the number of crazy customizations that these houses might have. As you might imagine, these outliers are going to affect the mean in a data set, and it will affect the average even more. For this reason, and given that there are not too many of these...