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Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning Perform data mining and machine learning efficiently using Python and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280748
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Statistics and Probability Refresher, and Python Practice 3. Matplotlib and Advanced Probability Concepts 4. Predictive Models 5. Machine Learning with Python 6. Recommender Systems 7. More Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques 8. Dealing with Real-World Data 9. Apache Spark - Machine Learning on Big Data 10. Testing and Experimental Design

Ensemble learning

When we talked about random forests, that was an example of ensemble learning, where we're actually combining multiple models together to come up with a better result than any single model could come up with. So, let's learn about that in a little bit more depth. Let's talk about ensemble learning a little bit more.

So, remember random forests? We had a bunch of decision trees that were using different subsamples of the input data, and different sets of attributes that it would branch on, and they all voted on the final result when you were trying to classify something at the end. That's an example of ensemble learning. Another example: when we were talking about k-means clustering, we had the idea of maybe using different k-means models with different initial random centroids, and letting them all vote on the final result as well. That is...

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