Machine
Learning
with Python
A GUIDE FOR DATA SCIENTISTS
,
,Introduction to Machine
Learning with Python
A Guide for Data Scientists
, Table of Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Why Machine Learning?
1 Problems Machine Learning Can Solve 2
Knowing Your Task and Knowing Your Data
4
Why Python?
5 scikit-learn
5
Installing scikit-learn
6
Essential Libraries and Tools
7
Jupyter Notebook
7 NumPy
7 SciPy
8 matplotlib
9 pandas
10 mglearn
11
Python 2 Versus Python 3
12
Versions Used in this Book
12
A First Application: Classifying Iris Species
13 Meet the Data
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