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Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn

You're reading from   Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn Apply effective learning algorithms to real-world problems using scikit-learn

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788299879
Length 254 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gavin Hackeling Gavin Hackeling
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Preface 1. The Fundamentals of Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Simple Linear Regression 3. Classification and Regression with k-Nearest Neighbors 4. Feature Extraction 5. From Simple Linear Regression to Multiple Linear Regression 6. From Linear Regression to Logistic Regression 7. Naive Bayes 8. Nonlinear Classification and Regression with Decision Trees 9. From Decision Trees to Random Forests and Other Ensemble Methods 10. The Perceptron 11. From the Perceptron to Support Vector Machines 12. From the Perceptron to Artificial Neural Networks 13. K-means 14. Dimensionality Reduction with Principal Component Analysis

Clustering to learn features

In this example, we will combine clustering with classification in a semi-supervised learning problem. We will learn features by clustering unlabeled data, and use the learned features to build a supervised classifier.

Suppose that you own a cat and a dog. Further suppose that you have purchased a smartphone, ostensibly to use to communicate with humans, but in practice just to use to photograph your cat and dog. Your photographs are awesome, and you are certain that your friends and co-workers would love to review all of them in detail. You'd like to be courteous and respect that some people will only want to see your cat photos while others will only want to see your dog photos, but separating the photos is laborious. Let's build a semi-supervised learning system that can classify images of cats and dogs.

Recall from Chapter 3, Classification...

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