Building Machine Learning Systems With Python Second Edition
by Luis Pedro Coelho (Author), Willi Richert (Author)
Language: English
Page:301

This Book is official Authorized publication, and used by Chinese local Stusents.

Content:
Preface
Chapter 1： Getting Started with Python Machine Learning
Machine learning and Python - a dream team
What the book will teach you （and what it will not）
What to do when you are stuck
Getting started
Introduction to NumPy， SciPy， and matplotlib
Installing Python
Chewing data efficiently with NumPy and intelligentlywith SciPy
Learning NumPy
Indexing
Handling nonexisting values
Comparing the runtime
Learning SciPy
Our first （tiny） application of machine learning
Reading in the data
Preprocessing and cleaning the data
Choosing the right model and learning algorithm
Beforebuilding our first model．．．
Starting with a simple straight line
Towards some advanced stuff
Stepping back to go forward - another look at our data
Training and testing
Answering our initial question
Summary

Chapter 2： Classifying with Real-world Examples
The Iris dataset
Visualization is a good first step
Building our first classification model
Evaluation - holding out data and cross-validation
Building more complex classifiers
A more complex dataset and a more complex classifim
Learning about the Seeds dataset
Features and feature engineering
Nearest neighbor classification
Classifying with scikit-learn
Looking at the decision boundaries
Binary and multiclass classification
Summary

Chapter 3： Clustering - Finding Related Posts
Measuring the relatedness of posts
How not to do it
How to do it
Preprocessing - similarity measured as a similar number of common words
Converting raw text into a bag of words
Counting words
Normalizing word count vectors
Removing less important words
Stemming
Stop words on steroids
Our achievements and goals
Clustering
K-means
Getting test data to evaluate our ideas on
Clustering posts
Solving our initial challenge
Another look at noise
Tweaking the parameters
Summary

Chapter 4： Topic Modeling
Latent Dirichlet allocation
Building a topic model
Comparing documents by topics
Modeling the whole of Wikipedia
Choosing the number of topics
Summary

Chapter 5： Classification - Detecting Poor Answers
Sketching our roadmap
Learning to classify classy answers
Tuning the instance
Tuning the classifier
Fetching the data
Slimming the data down to chewable chunks
Preselection and processing of attributes
Defining what is a good answer
Creating our first classifier
Starting with kNN
Engineering the features
Training the classifier
Measuring the classifier's performance
Designing more features
Deciding how to improve
Bias-variance and their tradeoff
Fixing high bias
Fixing high variance
High bias or low bias
Using logistic regression
A bit of math with a small example
Applying logistic regression to our post classification problem
Looking behind accuracy- precision and recall
Slimming the classifier
Ship it！
Summary

Chapter 6： Classification II - Sentiment Analysis
Sketching our roadmap
Fetching the Twitter data
Introducing the Naive Bayes classifier
Getting to know the Bayes' theorem
Being naive
Using Naive Bayes to classify
Accounting for unseen words and other oddities
Accounting for arithmetic underflows
Creating our first classifier and tuning it
Solving an easy problem first
Using all classes
Tuning the classifier's parameters
Cleaning tweets
Taking the word types into account
Determining the word types
Successfully cheating using SentiWordNet
Our first estimator
Putting everything together
Summary

Chapter 7： Regression
Predicting house prices with regression
Multidimensional regression
Cross-validation for regression
Penalized or regularized regression
L1 and L2 penalties
Using Lasso or ElasticNet in scikit-learn
Visualizing the Lasso path
P-greater-than-N scenarios
An example based on text documents
Setting hyperparameters in a principled way
Summary

Chapter 8： Recommendations
Rating predictions and recommendations
Splitting into training and testing
Normalizing the training data
A neighborhood approach to recommendations
A regression approach to recommendations
Combining multiple methods
Basket analysis
Obtaining useful predictions
Analyzing supermarket shopping baskets
Association rule mining
More advanced basket analysis
Summary

Chapter 9： Classification - Music Genre Classification
Sketching our roadmap
Fetching the music data
Converting into a WAV format
Looking at music
Decomposing music into sine wave components
Using FFT to build our first classifier
Increasing experimentation agility
Training the classifier
Using a confusion matrix to measure accuracy in
multiclass problems
An alternative way to measure classifier performance
using receiver-operator characteristics
Improving classification performance with Mel
Frequency Cepstral Coefficients
Summary

Chapter 10： Computer Vision
Introducing image processing
Loading and displaying images
Thresholding
Gaussian blurring
Putting the center in focus
Basic image classification
Computing features from images
Writing your own features
Using features to find similar images
Classifying a harder dataset
Local feature representations
Summary

Chapter 11： Dmensionality Reduction
Sketching our roadmap
Selecting features
Detecting redundant features using filters
Correlation
Mutual information
Asking the model about the features using wrappers
Other feature selection methods
Feature extraction
About principal component analysis
Sketching PCA
Applying PCA
Limitations of PCAand how LDA can help
Multidimensional scaling
Summary

Chapter 12： Bigger Data
Learning about big data
Using jug to break up your pipeline into tasks
An introduction to tasks in jug
Looking under the hood
Using jug for data analysis
Reusing partial results
Using Amazon Web Services
Creating your first virtual machines
Installing Python packages on Amazon Linux
Running jug on our cloud machine
Automating the generation of clusters with StarCluster
Summary

Appendix： Where to Learn More Machine Learning
Online courses
Books
Question and answer sites
Blogs
Data sources
Getting competitive
All that was left out
Summary
Index