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Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide Leverage popular machine learning algorithms and techniques and implement them in Scala

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345070
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Md. Rezaul Karim Md. Rezaul Karim
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Ajay Kumar N Ajay Kumar N
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Preface 1. Introduction to Machine Learning with Scala FREE CHAPTER 2. Scala for Regression Analysis 3. Scala for Learning Classification 4. Scala for Tree-Based Ensemble Techniques 5. Scala for Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering 6. Scala for Recommender System 7. Introduction to Deep Learning with Scala 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning regression analysis through examples

In the previous section, we discussed a simple real-life problem (that is, Age versus Savings). However, in practice, there are several real-life problems where more factors and parameters (that is, data properties) are involved, where regression can be applied too. Let's first introduce a real-life problem. Imagine that you live in Sao Paulo, a city in Brazil, where every day several hours of your valuable time are wasted because of unavoidable reasons such as an immobilized bus, broken truck, vehicle excess, accident victim, overtaking, fire vehicles, incident involving dangerous freight, lack of electricity, fire, and flooding.

Now, to measure how many man hours get wasted, we can we develop an automated technique, which will predict the slowness of traffic such that you can avoid certain routes or at least get some rough estimation...

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