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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

Support vector machine overview

Finally, we're going to talk about support vector machines (SVM), which is a very advanced way of clustering or classifying higher dimensional data.

So, what if you have multiple features that you want to predict from? SVM can be a very powerful tool for doing that, and the results can be scarily good! It's very complicated under the hood, but the important things are understanding when to use it, and how it works at a higher level. So, let's cover SVM now.

Support vector machines is a fancy name for what actually is a fancy concept. But fortunately, it's pretty easy to use. The important thing is knowing what it does, and what it's good for. So, support vector machines works well for classifying higher-dimensional data, and by that I mean lots of different features. So, it's easy to use something like k-means clustering...

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