While exposure to data has become more or less a daily ritual for the rank-and-file knowledge worker, true understanding-treated in this book as data literacy-resides in knowing what lies behind the data. Everything from the data's source to the specific choice of input variables, algorithmic transformations, and visual representation shape the accuracy, relevance, and value of the data and mark its journey from raw data to business insight. It's also important to grasp the terminology and basic concepts of data analytics as much as it is to have the financial literacy to be successful as a decisionmaker in the business world. In this book, we make sense of data analytics without the assumption that you understand specific data science terminology or advanced programming languages to set you on your path. Topics covered in this book: Data Mining Big Data Machine Learning Alternative Data Data Management Web Scraping Regression Analysis Clustering Analysis Association Analysis Data Visualization Business Intelligence

Get the Summary of Oliver Theobald's Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners" by Oliver Theobald provides an introduction to the expansive field of data science, which includes big data, AI, data mining, and machine learning. The book traces the evolution of data analysis from classical statistics, which could be managed manually, to the complex, computer-dependent techniques of today. It explains how AI aims to replicate human cognitive abilities and how machine learning, a subset of AI, uses algorithms to learn from data and make predictions...

One of Mark Cuban’s top reads for better understanding A.I. (inc.com, 2021) Your comprehensive entry-level guide to machine learning While machine learning expertise doesn’t quite mean you can create your own Turing Test-proof android—as in the movie Ex Machina—it is a form of artificial intelligence and one of the most exciting technological means of identifying opportunities and solving problems fast and on a large scale. Anyone who masters the principles of machine learning is mastering a big part of our tech future and opening up incredible new directions in careers that include fraud detection, optimizing search results, serving real-time ads, credit-scoring, building accurate and sophisticated pricing models—and way, way more. Unlike most machine learning books, the fully updated 2nd Edition of Machine Learning For Dummies doesn't assume you have years of experience using programming languages such as Python (R source is also included in a downloadable form with comments and explanations), but lets you in on the ground floor, covering the entry-level materials that will get you up and running building models you need to perform practical tasks. It takes a look at the underlying—and fascinating—math principles that power machine learning but also shows that you don't need to be a math whiz to build fun new tools and apply them to your work and study. Understand the history of AI and machine learning Work with Python 3.8 and TensorFlow 2.x (and R as a download) Build and test your own models Use the latest datasets, rather than the worn out data found in other books Apply machine learning to real problems Whether you want to learn for college or to enhance your business or career performance, this friendly beginner's guide is your best introduction to machine learning, allowing you to become quickly confident using this amazing and fast-developing technology that's impacting lives for the better all over the world.

Learn How to Make Your Own Recommender System in an Afternoon.Recommender systems are one of the most visible applications of machine learning and data mining today and their uncanny ability to convert our unspoken actions into items we desire is both addicting and concerning. And whether recommender systems excite or scare you, the best way to manage their influence and impact is to understand the architecture and algorithms that play on your personal data. Recommender systems are here to stay and for anyone beginning their journey in data science, this is a lucrative space for future employment.This book will get you up and running with the basics as well as the steps to coding your own recommender system. Exercises include predicting book recommendations, relevant house properties for online marketing purposes, and whether a user will click on an ad campaign. The contents of this book is designed for beginners with some background knowledge of data science, including classical statistics and computing programming. If this is your first exposure to data science, you may want to spend a few hours to read my first book Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners before you get started here.Topics covered in this book: Setting Up A Sandbox Environment With Jupyter NotebookWorking With DataData ReductionBuilding a Collaborative Filtering ModelBuilding a Content-Based Filtering ModelEvaluationPrivacy & EthicsFuture of Recommender SystemsPlease feel welcome to join this introductory course by buying a copy or sending a free sample to your preferred device.

♦♦Bonus: Buy the Paperback version of this book, and get the kindle eBook version included for FREE** Machine Learning is changing the world. You use Machine Learning every day and probably don't know it. In this book, you will learn how ML grew from a desire to make computers able to learn. Trace the development of Machine Learning from the early days of a computer learning how to play checkers, to machines able to beat world masters in chess and go. Understand how large data is so important to Machine Learning, and how the collection of massive amounts of data provides Machine Learning programmers with the information they need to developing learning algorithms.Simple examples will help you understand the complex math and probability statistics underlining Machine Learning. You will also see real-world examples of Machine Learning in action and uncover how these algorithms are making your life better every day.Learn about how artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Swarm Intelligence interact and complement each other as part of the quest to generate machines capable of thinking and reacting to the world. Read about the technical issues with Machine Learning and how they are being overcome. Discover the dark side of ML and what possible outcomes there could be should things go wrong. And finally, learn about the positive future artificial intelligence and Machine Learning promise to bring to the world. In this book, you will discover *The history of Machine Learning *Approaches taken to ML in the past and present *Artificial intelligence and its relationship to ML *How neural networks, big data, regression, and the cloud all play a part in the development of Machine Learning *Compare Machine Learning to the Internet of Things, Robotics, and Swarm Intelligence *Learn about the different models of ML and how each is used to produce learning algorithms *Get access to free software and data sets so you can try out your very own Machine Learning software *Examine some of the technical problems and philosophical dilemmas with ML *See what advanced Machine Learning will make to our world in the future So what are you waiting for???Scroll back up and order this book NOW.

This practical guide provides nearly 200 self-contained recipes to help you solve machine learning challenges you may encounter in your daily work. If you’re comfortable with Python and its libraries, including pandas and scikit-learn, you’ll be able to address specific problems such as loading data, handling text or numerical data, model selection, and dimensionality reduction and many other topics. Each recipe includes code that you can copy and paste into a toy dataset to ensure that it actually works. From there, you can insert, combine, or adapt the code to help construct your application. Recipes also include a discussion that explains the solution and provides meaningful context. This cookbook takes you beyond theory and concepts by providing the nuts and bolts you need to construct working machine learning applications. You’ll find recipes for: Vectors, matrices, and arrays Handling numerical and categorical data, text, images, and dates and times Dimensionality reduction using feature extraction or feature selection Model evaluation and selection Linear and logical regression, trees and forests, and k-nearest neighbors Support vector machines (SVM), naïve Bayes, clustering, and neural networks Saving and loading trained models

Automate data and model pipelines for faster machine learning applications Key Features Build automated modules for different machine learning components Understand each component of a machine learning pipeline in depth Learn to use different open source AutoML and feature engineering platforms Book Description AutoML is designed to automate parts of Machine Learning. Readily available AutoML tools are making data science practitioners’ work easy and are received well in the advanced analytics community. Automated Machine Learning covers the necessary foundation needed to create automated machine learning modules and helps you get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible. In this book, you’ll learn how to automate different tasks in the machine learning pipeline such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. In addition to this, it demonstrates how you can use the available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and create and extend your own custom AutoML components for Machine Learning. By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of the different aspects of automated Machine Learning, and you’ll be able to incorporate automation tasks using practical datasets. You can leverage your learning from this book to implement Machine Learning in your projects and get a step closer to winning various machine learning competitions. What you will learn Understand the fundamentals of Automated Machine Learning systems Explore auto-sklearn and MLBox for AutoML tasks Automate your preprocessing methods along with feature transformation Enhance feature selection and generation using the Python stack Assemble individual components of ML into a complete AutoML framework Demystify hyperparameter tuning to optimize your ML models Dive into Machine Learning concepts such as neural networks and autoencoders Understand the information costs and trade-offs associated with AutoML Who this book is for If you’re a budding data scientist, data analyst, or Machine Learning enthusiast and are new to the concept of automated machine learning, this book is ideal for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re an ML engineer or data professional interested in developing quick machine learning pipelines for your projects. Prior exposure to Python programming will help you get the best out of this book.