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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955248
Pages 478 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Avinash Navlani Avinash Navlani
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Ivan Idris Ivan Idris
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Foundation for Data Analysis
2. Getting Started with Python Libraries 3. NumPy and pandas 4. Statistics 5. Linear Algebra 6. Section 2: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning
7. Data Visualization 8. Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data 9. Cleaning Messy Data 10. Signal Processing and Time Series 11. Section 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning
12. Supervised Learning - Regression Analysis 13. Supervised Learning - Classification Techniques 14. Unsupervised Learning - PCA and Clustering 15. Section 4: NLP, Image Analytics, and Parallel Computing
16. Analyzing Textual Data 17. Analyzing Image Data 18. Parallel Computing Using Dask 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Regression models for classification

Classification is the most utilized technique in the area of machine and statistical learning. Most machine learning problems are classification problems, such as detecting spam emails, analyzing financial risk, churn analysis, and discovering potential customers.

Classification can be of two types: binary and multi-class classification. Binary classification target variables have only two values: either 0 and 1 or yes or no. Examples of binary classification are whether a customer will buy an item or not, whether the customer will switch or churn to another brand or not, spam detection, disease prediction, and whether a loan applicant will default or not. Multi-class classification has more than two classes, for example, for categories of news articles, the classes could be sports, politics, business, and many more.

Logistic regression is one of the classification methods, although its name ends with regression. It is a commonly used binary class...

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