Practical Machine Learning with Python: A Problem-Solver's Guide to Building Real-World Intelligent Systems

ISBN-13: 9781484232064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 530 str.

Dipanjan Sarkar; Raghav Bali; Tushar Sharma

Spis treści

PART I – Understanding Machine Learning

Chapter 1:  Machine Learning Basics

Chapter Goal: This chapter familiarizes and acquaints readers with the basics of machine learning, industry standard workflows followed for machine learning processes and expands on the different types of machine learning and deep learning algorithms

No of pages: 50-60

Sub -Topics

1. Brief on machine learning, definitions and concepts

2. Industry standard for data mining processes – CRISP – DM and adoption in ML

3. Brief on data processing, visualization, feature extraction\engineering concepts

4. Types of learning algorithms – supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning

5. Advanced models – time series, deep learning

6. Model building and validation concepts

7. Applications of machine learning

Chapter 2:  The Python Machine Learning Ecosystem

Chapter Go

al: This chapter introduces readers to the python language and the entire ecosystem built around machine learning with python tools, frameworks and libraries. Overview and code samples are given for each tool to depict its usage and effectiveness

No of pages: 50 - 60

Sub - Topics

1. Brief on Python  

2. Why is Python effective for machine learning and data science

3. Brief overview on the python ecosystem followed by data scientists (includes anaconda distribution) 

4. Reproducible research with ipython

5. Data processing and computing with pandas, numpy, scipy

6. Statistical learning with statsmodels

7. ML frameworks – scikit-learn, pyml etc

8. NLP frameworks – nltk, pattern, spacy

9. DL frameworks – theano, tensorflow, keras

PART II –  The Machine Learning Pipeline

Chapter 3: Processing, wrangling and visualizing data&

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1. Data Retrieval mechanisms (crawling, databases, APIs etc)

2. Data processing (handling various forms of data – SQL, JSON, XML, Images)

3. Data attributes and features (numeric, categorical etc)

4. Data Wrangling (cleaning, handling missing values, normalizing data)

5. Data Summarization

6. Data Visualization (bar, histogram, boxplot, line, scatter etc)

Chapter 4:  Feature Engineering and Selection

Chapter Goal: T

his chapter focuses on the next stage in the ML pipeline, feature extraction, engineering and selection. Readers will learn about both basic and advanced feature engineering methods for different data formats including numeric, text and images. We will also focus on methods for effective feature selection

No of pages:  50 - 60

Sub - Topics: 

1. Features – understanding your

v>2. Basic Feature engineering

3. Extracting features from numeric, categorical variables

4. Extracting features from date\timestamp variables

5. Extracting Basic features from textual data (bag of words)

6. Advanced Feature engineering

7. Extracting complex features from textual data (word vectorization, tfidf, topic models)

8. Extracting features from images (pixels, edge detection, shapes)

9. Time series features

10. Feature scaling and standardization

11 Feature se

lection techniques

12 Using forward\backward selection techniques

13 Using machine learning models like random forests

14 Other methods

Chapter 5: Building, tuning and deploying models

Chapter Goal: This chapter focuses on the final stage in the ML pipeline where readers will learn how to fit and build models on data features, how to optimize and tun

e models and f learn ways of deploying models to use them in real-world scenarios for predictions\insights

No of pages : 50-60

Sub – Topics:  

1. Fitting and building models 

2. Model evaluation techniques

3. Model optimization methods like gradient descent

4. Model tuning methodologies like cross validation, grid search

5. How to save and load models

6. Deploying models in action

PART III –  Real-world case studies in applied machine learning

Chapt

er 6: Analyzing bike sharing trends

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on a real-world case study of analyzing and predicting bike sharing trends with a focus on regression models

No of pages : 30-40

Sub – Topics:  

1. Trend analysis

2. Regression models

3. Predictive analytics

Chapter 7: Analyzing movie reviews sentiment

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on a real-world case study of analyzing sentiment for popular movie reviews using concepts and techniques from natural language processing, text analytics and classification

No of pages : 30-40

Sub – Topics:  

1. Text Classification

2. Natural language processing

3. Sentiment analysis

4. Comparing models and different features

Chapter 8: Customer segmentation and effective cross selling

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on a re

al-world case study of leveraging unsupervised learning and pattern recognition for solving problems in the retail industry like customer segmentation, cross selling and so on

No of pages : 30-40

Sub – Topics:  

1. Clustering techniques

2. Customer segmentation

3. Pattern recognition and association rule mining

4. Analyze potential product asso

elling trends

Chapter 9: Social network analysis – A Facebook case-study

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on analyzing data from a popular social network – Facebook and acquaint readers to concepts from social network analysis and graph theory

No of pages : 30-40

Sub – Topics:  

1. Social network analysis

2. Data retrieval and analysis from Facebook

3. Concepts from graph theory applied in real-world data

4. Useful visualizations from facebook data

Chapter 10: Analyzing music trends and recommentations

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on a real-world case study of analyzing music trends and also providing music recommendations to users using concepts from recommender systems like collaborative filtering

No of pages : 40 - 50

Sub – Topics:  

1. Recommender systems

2. Techniques – collaborative f

v>iv>3. Analyzing tre

sights from music dataiv>4. Music\song recommendations in action

Chapter 11: Forecasting stock and commodity prices

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on a real-world case study of trying to forecast stock and commodity price trends based on market data and using advanced models like time series models and deep learning models like RNNs

No of pages : 40 - 50

Sub – Topics:  

1. Trend analysis

2. Time series forecasting – ARIMA\EWMA m

odels

3. Deep learning based forecasting – RNN\LSTM models

4. Regression\MC models if needed

Chapter 12: Image similarity, classification and generation

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on trying to analyze a real-world image dataset and look at methods for image similarity, build image classifiers and generate images using innovative technique

en advanced deep learning models

No of pages : 50

Su

div>b – Topics:  ;iv>1. Image processing, similarity analysis

2. Basic models – simple classification, dynamic time warping

3. Image classification with deep learning models – CNNs, MLPs

4. Image generation using generative adversial networks in deep learning (GANs) – if time\scope permits

O autorze

Dipanjan Sarkar is a Data Scientist at Intel, on a mission to make the world more connected and productive. He primarily works on data science, analytics, business intelligence, application development, and building large-scale intelligent systems. He holds a master of technology degree in Information Technology with specializations in Data Science and Software Engineering from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He is also an avid supporter of self-learning, especially Massive Open Online Courses and also holds a Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University on Coursera. 

Dipanjan has been an analytics practitioner for several years, specializing in statistical, predictive, and text analytics. Having a passion for data science and education, he is a Data Science Mentor at Springboard, helping people up-skill on areas like Data Science and Machine Learning. Dipanjan has also authored several books on R, Python, Machine Learning and Analytics, including Text Analytics with Python, Apress 2016. Besides this, he occasionally reviews technical books and acts as a course beta tester for Coursera. Dipanjan's interests include learning about new technology, financial markets, disruptive start-ups, data science and more recently, artificial intelligence and deep learning. 

 Raghav Bali has a master's degree (gold medalist) in Information

Technology from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He is a Data Scientist at Intel, where he works on analytics, business intelligence, and application development to develop scalable machine learning-based solutions. He has also worked as an analyst and developer in domains such as ERP, finance, and BI with some of the leading organizations in the world.

Raghav is a technology enthusiast who loves reading and playing around with new gadgets and technologies. He has also authored several books on R, Machine Learning and Analytics. He is a shutterbug, capturing moments when he isn't busy solving problems.

Tushar Sharma has a master’s degree from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He works as a Data Scientist with Intel. His work involves developing analytical solutions at scale using enormous volumes of infrastructure data. In his previous role, he has worked in the financial domain developing scalable machine learning solutions for major financial organizations. He is proficient in Python, R and Big Data frameworks like Spark and Hadoop.

Apart from work Tushar enjoys watching movies, playing badminton and is an avid reader. He has also authored a book on R and social media analytics.

Blurb

Master the essential skills needed to recognize and solve complex problems with machine learning and deep learning. Using real-world examples that leverage the popular Python machine learning ecosystem, this book is your perfect companion for learning the art and science of machine learning to become a successful practitioner.  

The concepts, techniques, tools, frameworks, and methodologies used in this book will teach you how to think, design, build, and execute machine learning systems and projects successfully. Practical Machine Learning with Python follows a structured and comprehensive three-tiered approach packed with hands-on examples and code.

Part 1 focuses on understanding machine learning concepts and tools. Part 2 details standard machine learning pipelines, with an emphasis on data processing analysis, feature engineering, and modeling. Part 3 explores multiple real-world case studies spanning diverse domains and industries like retail, transportation, movies, music, marketing, computer vision and finance. 

Practical Machine Learning with Python will empower you to start solving your own problems with machine learning today!

You will:

• Execute end-to-end machine learning projects and systems
  
• Implement hands-on examples with industry standard, open source, robust machine learning tools and frameworks
  
• Review case studies depicting applications of machine learning and deep learning on diverse domains and industries
• Apply a wide range of machine learning models including regression, classification, and clustering.