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Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson

You're reading from   Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson Leverage IBM Watson to implement machine learning techniques and algorithms using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789611854
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James D. Miller James D. Miller
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Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction and Foundation
2. Introduction to IBM Cloud FREE CHAPTER 3. Feature Extraction - A Bag of Tricks 4. Supervised Machine Learning Models for Your Data 5. Implementing Unsupervised Algorithms 6. Section 2: Tools and Ingredients for Machine Learning in IBM Cloud
7. Machine Learning Workouts on IBM Cloud 8. Using Spark with IBM Watson Studio 9. Deep Learning Using TensorFlow on the IBM Cloud 10. Section 3: Real-Life Complete Case Studies
11. Creating a Facial Expression Platform on IBM Cloud 12. The Automated Classification of Lithofacies Formation Using ML 13. Building a Cloud-Based Multibiometric Identity Authentication Platform 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

K-nearest neighbors

As the previous algorithm (KMeans) is an unsupervised learning methodology, the k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm is a fundamentally simple to understand supervised machine learning methodology. The concept of the KNN algorithm is described commonly as classifying data by identifying its nearest neighbor or, my favorite analogy, you can identify or classify data by identifying who it associates most with or finding its closest neighbor.

The Python code

As we stated earlier, our objective is to demonstrate how to implement various types of ML algorithms within IBM Watson Studio, not provide the theory behind each algorithm; in addition to that, consistent with the last section, we will utilize an existing...

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