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Machine Learning Engineering with Python
Supercharge the value of your machine learning models by building scalable and robust solutions that can serve them in production environmentsKey FeaturesExplore hyperparameter optimization and model management toolsLearn object-oriented programming and functional programming in Python to build your own ML libraries and packagesExplore key ML engineering patterns like microservices and the Extract Transform Machine Learn (ETML) pattern with use casesBook DescriptionMachine learning engineering is a thriving discipline at the interface of software development and machine learning. This book will help developers working with machine learning and Python to put their knowledge to work and create high-quality machine learning products and services. Machine Learning Engineering with Python takes a hands-on approach to help you get to grips with essential technical concepts, implementation patterns, and development methodologies to have you up and running in no time. You'll begin by understanding key steps of the machine learning development life cycle before moving on to practical illustrations and getting to grips with building and deploying robust machine learning solutions. As you advance, you'll explore how to create your own toolsets for training and deployment across all your projects in a consistent way. The book will also help you get hands-on with deployment architectures and discover methods for scaling up your solutions while building a solid understanding of how to use cloud-based tools effectively. Finally, you'll work through examples to help you solve typical business problems. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build end-to-end machine learning services using a variety of techniques and design your own processes for consistently performant machine learning engineering.What you will learnFind out what an effective ML engineering process looks likeUncover options for automating training and deployment and learn how to use themDiscover how to build your own wrapper libraries for encapsulating your data science and machine learning logic and solutionsUnderstand what aspects of software engineering you can bring to machine learningGain insights into adapting software engineering for machine learning using appropriate cloud technologiesPerform hyperparameter tuning in a relatively automated wayWho this book is forThis book is for machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software developers who want to build robust software solutions with machine learning components. If you're someone who manages or wants to understand the production life cycle of these systems, you'll find this book useful. Intermediate-level knowledge of Python is necessary.
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Python: Real World Machine Learning
Learn to solve challenging data science problems by building powerful machine learning models using PythonAbout This Book* Understand which algorithms to use in a given context with the help of this exciting recipe-based guide* This practical tutorial tackles real-world computing problems through a rigorous and effective approach* Build state-of-the-art models and develop personalized recommendations to perform machine learning at scaleWho This Book Is ForThis Learning Path is for Python programmers who are looking to use machine learning algorithms to create real-world applications. It is ideal for Python professionals who want to work with large and complex datasets and Python developers and analysts or data scientists who are looking to add to their existing skills by accessing some of the most powerful recent trends in data science. Experience with Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and command-line execution together with a good level of mathematical knowledge to understand the concepts is expected. Machine learning basic knowledge is also expected.What You Will Learn* Use predictive modeling and apply it to real-world problems* Understand how to perform market segmentation using unsupervised learning* Apply your new-found skills to solve real problems, through clearly-explained code for every technique and test* Compete with top data scientists by gaining a practical and theoretical understanding of cutting-edge deep learning algorithms* Increase predictive accuracy with deep learning and scalable data-handling techniques* Work with modern state-of-the-art large-scale machine learning techniques* Learn to use Python code to implement a range of machine learning algorithms and techniquesIn DetailMachine learning is increasingly spreading in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. Machine learning is transforming the way we understand and interact with the world around us.In the first module, Python Machine Learning Cookbook, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks using a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms.The second module, Advanced Machine Learning with Python, is designed to take you on a guided tour of the most relevant and powerful machine learning techniques and you'll acquire a broad set of powerful skills in the area of feature selection and feature engineering.The third module in this learning path, Large Scale Machine Learning with Python, dives into scalable machine learning and the three forms of scalability. It covers the most effective machine learning techniques on a map reduce framework in Hadoop and Spark in Python.This Learning Path will teach you Python machine learning for the real world. The machine learning techniques covered in this Learning Path are at the forefront of commercial practice.This Learning Path combines some
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Python: Data Analytics and Visualization
Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This Book* Learn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packages* A step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practices* Effectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to visualize their analyzed data in a more efficient and insightful manner.What You Will Learn* Get acquainted with NumPy and use arrays and array-oriented computing in data analysis* Process and analyze data using the time-series capabilities of Pandas* Understand the statistical and mathematical concepts behind predictive analytics algorithms* Data visualization with Matplotlib* Interactive plotting with NumPy, Scipy, and MKL functions* Build financial models using Monte-Carlo simulations* Create directed graphs and multi-graphs* Advanced visualization with D3In DetailYou will start the course with an introduction to the principles of data analysis and supported libraries, along with NumPy basics for statistics and data processing. Next, you will overview the Pandas package and use its powerful features to solve data-processing problems. Moving on, you will get a brief overview of the Matplotlib API .Next, you will learn to manipulate time and data structures, and load and store data in a file or database using Python packages. You will learn how to apply powerful packages in Python to process raw data into pure and helpful data using examples. You will also get a brief overview of machine learning algorithms, that is, applying data analysis results to make decisions or building helpful products such as recommendations and predictions using Scikit-learn.After this, you will move on to a data analytics specialization-predictive analytics. Social media and IOT have resulted in an avalanche of data. You will get started with predictive analytics using Python. You will see how to create predictive models from data. You will get balanced information on statistical and mathematical concepts, and implement them in Python using libraries such as Pandas, scikit-learn, and NumPy. You'll learn more about the best predictive modeling algorithms such as Linear Regression, Decision Tree, and Logistic Regression. Finally, you will master best practices in predictive modeling.After this, you will get all the practical guidance you need to help you on the journey to effective data visualization. Starting with a chapter on data frameworks, which explains the transformation of data into information and eventually knowledge, this path subsequently cover the complete visualization process using the most popular Python libraries with working examplesThis Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:? Getting Started with Python Data Analysis, Phuong Vo.T
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Mastering spaCy
Build end-to-end industrial-strength NLP models using advanced morphological and syntactic features in spaCy to create real-world applications with easeKey FeaturesGain an overview of what spaCy offers for natural language processingLearn details of spaCy's features and how to use them effectivelyWork through practical recipes using spaCyBook DescriptionspaCy is an industrial-grade, efficient NLP Python library. It offers various pre-trained models and ready-to-use features. Mastering spaCy provides you with end-to-end coverage of spaCy's features and real-world applications.You'll begin by installing spaCy and downloading models, before progressing to spaCy's features and prototyping real-world NLP apps. Next, you'll get familiar with visualizing with spaCy's popular visualizer displaCy. The book also equips you with practical illustrations for pattern matching and helps you advance into the world of semantics with word vectors. Statistical information extraction methods are also explained in detail. Later, you'll cover an interactive business case study that shows you how to combine all spaCy features for creating a real-world NLP pipeline. You'll implement ML models such as sentiment analysis, intent recognition, and context resolution. The book further focuses on classification with popular frameworks such as TensorFlow's Keras API together with spaCy. You'll cover popular topics, including intent classification and sentiment analysis, and use them on popular datasets and interpret the classification results.By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently use spaCy, including its linguistic features, word vectors, and classifiers, to create your own NLP apps.What you will learnInstall spaCy, get started easily, and write your first Python scriptUnderstand core linguistic operations of spaCyDiscover how to combine rule-based components with spaCy statistical modelsBecome well-versed with named entity and keyword extractionBuild your own ML pipelines using spaCyApply all the knowledge you've gained to design a chatbot using spaCyWho this book is forThis book is for data scientists and machine learners who want to excel in NLP as well as NLP developers who want to master spaCy and build applications with it. Language and speech professionals who want to get hands-on with Python and spaCy and software developers who want to quickly prototype applications with spaCy will also find this book helpful. Beginner-level knowledge of the Python programming language is required to get the most out of this book. A beginner-level understanding of linguistics such as parsing, POS tags, and semantic similarity will also be useful.
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Mastering Python Data Visualization
Generate effective results in a variety of visually appealing charts using the plotting packages in PythonAbout This Book• Explore various tools and their strengths while building meaningful representations that can make it easier to understand data• Packed with computational methods and algorithms in diverse fields of science• Written in an easy-to-follow categorical style, this book discusses some niche techniques that will make your code easier to work with and reuseWho This Book Is ForIf you are a Python developer who performs data visualization and wants to develop existing knowledge about Python to build analytical results and produce some amazing visual display, then this book is for you. A basic knowledge level and understanding of Python libraries is assumed.What You Will Learn• Gather, cleanse, access, and map data to a visual framework• Recognize which visualization method is applicable and learn best practices for data visualization• Get acquainted with reader-driven narratives and author-driven narratives and the principles of perception• Understand why Python is an effective tool to be used for numerical computation much like MATLAB, and explore some interesting data structures that come with it• Explore with various visualization choices how Python can be very useful in computation in the field of finance and statistics• Get to know why Python is the second choice after Java, and is used frequently in the field of machine learning• Compare Python with other visualization approaches using Julia and a JavaScript-based framework such as D3.js• Discover how Python can be used in conjunction with NoSQL such as Hive to produce results efficiently in a distributed environmentIn DetailPython has a handful of open source libraries for numerical computations involving optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, and other special functions using array objects, machine learning, data mining, and plotting. Pandas have a productive environment for data analysis. These libraries have a specific purpose and play an important role in the research into diverse domains including economics, finance, biological sciences, social science, health care, and many more. The variety of tools and approaches available within Python community is stunning, and can bolster and enhance visual story experiences.This book offers practical guidance to help you on the journey to effective data visualization. Commencing with a chapter on the data framework, which explains the transformation of data into information and eventually knowledge, this book subsequently covers the complete visualization process using the most popular Python libraries with working examples. You will learn the usage of Numpy, Scipy, IPython, MatPlotLib, Pandas, Patsy, and Scikit-Learn with a focus on generating results that can be visualized in many different ways. Further chapters are aimed at not only showing advanced techniques such as interactive plotting; numerical, graphical
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Robo-Advisor with Python
Build your own robo-advisor in Python to manage your investments and get up and running in no timePurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesExplore the use cases, workflow, and features that make up robo-advisorsLearn how to build core robo-advisor capabilities for goals, risk questions, portfolios, and projectionsDiscover how to operate the automated processes of a built and deployed robo-advisorBook DescriptionRobo-advisors are becoming table stakes for the wealth management industry across all segments, from retail to high-net-worth investors. Robo-advisors enable you to manage your own portfolios and financial institutions to create automated platforms for effective digital wealth management. This book is your hands-on guide to understanding how Robo-advisors work, and how to build one efficiently. The chapters are designed in a way to help you get a comprehensive grasp of what Robo-advisors do and how they are structured with an end-to-end workflow. You'll begin by learning about the key decisions that influence the building of a Robo-advisor, along with considerations on building and licensing a platform. As you advance, you'll find out how to build all the core capabilities of a Robo-advisor using Python, including goals, risk questionnaires, portfolios, and projections. The book also shows you how to create orders, as well as open accounts and perform KYC verification for transacting. Finally, you'll be able to implement capabilities such as performance reporting and rebalancing for operating a Robo-advisor with ease. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how Robo-advisors work and be well on your way to building one for yourself or your business.What you will learnExplore what Robo-advisors do and why they existCreate a workflow to design and build a Robo-advisor from the bottom upBuild and license Robo-advisors using different approachesOpen and fund accounts, complete KYC verification, and manage ordersBuild Robo-advisor features for goals, projections, portfolios, and moreOperate a Robo-advisor with P&L, rebalancing, and fee managementWho this book is forIf you are a finance professional or a data professional working in wealth management and are curious about how robo-advisors work, this book is for you. It will be helpful to have a basic understanding of Python and investing concepts. This is a great handbook for developers interested in building their own robo-advisor to manage personal investments or build a platform for their business to operate, as well as for product managers and business leaders in financial services looking to lease, buy, or build a robo-advisor.
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook
This book is intended for Python programmers interested in learning how to do natural language processing. Maybe you've learned the limits of regular expressions the hard way, or you've realized that human language cannot be deterministically parsed like a computer language. Perhaps you have more text than you know what to do with, and need automated ways to analyze and structure that text. This Cookbook will show you how to train and use statistical language models to process text in ways that are practically impossible with standard programming tools. A basic knowledge of Python and the basic text processing concepts is expected. Some experience with regular expressions will also be helpful.
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Python Machine Learning Cookbook
100 recipes that teach you how to perform various machine learning tasks in the real worldAbout This Book• Understand which algorithms to use in a given context with the help of this exciting recipe-based guide• Learn about perceptrons and see how they are used to build neural networks• Stuck while making sense of images, text, speech, and real estate? This guide will come to your rescue, showing you how to perform machine learning for each one of these using various techniquesWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python programmers who are looking to use machine-learning algorithms to create real-world applications. This book is friendly to Python beginners, but familiarity with Python programming would certainly be useful to play around with the code.What You Will Learn• Explore classification algorithms and apply them to the income bracket estimation problem• Use predictive modeling and apply it to real-world problems• Understand how to perform market segmentation using unsupervised learning• Explore data visualization techniques to interact with your data in diverse ways• Find out how to build a recommendation engine• Understand how to interact with text data and build models to analyze it• Work with speech data and recognize spoken words using Hidden Markov Models• Analyze stock market data using Conditional Random Fields• Work with image data and build systems for image recognition and biometric face recognition• Grasp how to use deep neural networks to build an optical character recognition systemIn DetailMachine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more.With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We'll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you'll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms.You'll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.Style and approachYou will explore various real-life scenarios in this book where machine learning can be used, and learn about different building blocks of machine learning using independent recipes in the book.
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