Introduction to
machine learning
with scikit-learn
Credit: Benjamin Bengfort
Machine learning
- Subfield of computer science
- Evolved from pattern recognition & learning theory in AI
- Provides computers with the ability to learn without having being explicitly programmed
- Learn from and make predictions from data
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Classification
- Regression
- Clustering
- Semi-supervised learning
- Feature selection
- Feature extraction
- Dimensionality reduction
- ...
scikit-learn: About
- Extensions of SciPy are called scikits
- scikit-learn provides ML algorithms
- Supervised & unsupervised learning
- Built on Numpy and SciPy
- Sits on top of C libraries
- Standard Python API interface
- Open Source (BSD License)
- scikit-learn 0.17 (stable)
- http://scikit-learn.org/
Introduction to machine learning with scikit-learn