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Python Data Science Essentials

You're reading from   Python Data Science Essentials A practitioner's guide covering essential data science principles, tools, and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537864
Length 472 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Luca Massaron Luca Massaron
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Alberto Boschetti Alberto Boschetti
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Munging 3. The Data Pipeline 4. Machine Learning 5. Visualization, Insights, and Results 6. Social Network Analysis 7. Deep Learning Beyond the Basics 8. Spark for Big Data 9. Strengthen Your Python Foundations 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linear and logistic regression

Linear and logistic regressions are the two methods that can be used to linearly predict a target value or a target class, respectively. Let's start with an example of linear regression predicting a target value.

In this section, we will again use the Boston dataset, which contains 506 samples, 13 features (all real numbers), and a (real) numerical target (which renders it ideal for regression problems). We will divide our dataset into two sections by using a train/test split cross-validation to test our methodology (in the example, 80 percent of our dataset goes in training and 20 percent in the test set):

In: from sklearn.datasets import load_boston
boston = load_boston()
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test = train_test_split(boston.data,
boston.target...
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