Python Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Handbook for Machine Learning

Stop Taking Machine Learning Courses. Use this Book Instead

Khuyen Tran
Analytics Vidhya

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Motivation

Congratulation! You decided to break into data science and machine learning. You may have taken some courses in machine learning online or even taken several hands-on machine learning projects.

But wait, you are given a dataset without labels and you are expected to label and categorize the target feature in your data. Which machine learning algorithm should you use?

If you could not answer this question right away, you should not doubt your ability and start taking or retaking a whole course on machine learning. I spent a whole semester on an intense machine learning course but still couldn't answer this question right away.

That is because there are so many types of data and many methods to handle them. There are three ways that you could find the solution to your question:

  1. Search on Google
  2. Read articles
  3. Use technical books

I often use the first option when searching for a solution to a particular problem, but what if I don’t even know how to name the problem in Google? If I don’t know that I am dealing…

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