Machine Learning with Python: A Mathematical Perspective

Machine Learning: The three different types of machine learning, Introduction to the basic terminology and notations, A roadmap for building machine learning systems, Using Python for machine learning Training Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification, Artificial neurons – a brief glimpse into the early history of machine learning, Implementing a perception learning algorithm in Python, Adaptive linear neurons and the convergence of learning A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn, Choosing a classification algorithm, First steps with scikit-learn – training a perceptron, Modeling class probabilities via logistic regression, Maximum margin classification with support vector machines, Solving nonlinear problems using a kernel SVM, Decision tree learning, K-nearest neighbors – a lazy learning algorithm. Data Preprocessing, Hyperparameter Tuning: Building Good Training Sets, Dealing with missing data, Handling categorical data, Partitioning a dataset into separate training and test sets, Bringing features onto the same scale, Selecting meaningful features, Assessing feature importance with random forests, Compressing Data via Dimensionality Reduction, Unsupervised dimensionality reduction via principal component analysis, Supervised data compression via linear discriminant analysis, Using kernel principal component analysis for nonlinear mappings, Learning Best Practices for Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning, Streamlining workflows with pipelines, Using k-fold cross-validation to assess model performance. Regression Analysis: Predicting Continuous Target Variables, Introducing linear regression, Exploring the Housing dataset, Implementing an ordinary least squares linear regression model, Fitting a robust regression model using RANSAC, Evaluating the performance of linear regression models, Using regularized methods for