Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Using the out_file=None setting, we directly assigned the dot data to a dot_data variable, instead of writing an intermediate tree.dot file to disk."

A block of code is set as follows:

>>> from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
>>> knn = KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=5, p=2,
...                            metric='minkowski')
>>> knn.fit(X_train_std, y_train)
>>> plot_decision_regions(X_combined_std, y_combined, 
...                       classifier=knn, test_idx=range(105,150))
>>> plt.xlabel('petal length [standardized]')
>>> plt.ylabel('petal width [standardized]')
>>> plt.show()

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

pip3 install graphviz

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "After we click on the Dashboard button in the top-right corner, we have access to the control panel shown at the top of the page."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.