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Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python Master the complete predictive analytics process, from problem definition to model deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138719
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alvaro Fuentes Alvaro Fuentes
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Predictive Analytics Process FREE CHAPTER 2. Problem Understanding and Data Preparation 3. Dataset Understanding – Exploratory Data Analysis 4. Predicting Numerical Values with Machine Learning 5. Predicting Categories with Machine Learning 6. Introducing Neural Nets for Predictive Analytics 7. Model Evaluation 8. Model Tuning and Improving Performance 9. Implementing a Model with Dash 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Practical project – credit card default

This is our second practical project, in which we will solve a classification problem. As we did with the diamonds dataset, let's begin the predictive analytics process for this new project by understanding and defining the problem.

Credit card default – problem understanding and definition

TFI is the Taiwanese Financial Institution and it offers credit cards. It has been detecting an increase in defaults among its customers; a default is defined as a customer missing a payment for a single month. This situation is negatively affecting the revenue of the company and they know they can do something about it if they could anticipate which credit card holders are going...

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