How to Create Machine Learning Models in Python: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Daniel Parente
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5 min readOct 19, 2023

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A comprehensive walkthrough on building ML models efficiently with Python

Python has become the go-to language for data scientists and machine learning engineers. With its versatile set of ML libraries like Scikit-Learn, Keras, PyTorch, and TensorFlow, Python makes building machine learning models incredibly efficient.

In this post, I provide a comprehensive guide to creating ML models in Python. We'll go through the key steps:

  • Problem formulation
  • Acquiring and preparing data
  • Training machine learning algorithms
  • Evaluating model performance
  • Deployment and monitoring

I'll also share Python code examples demonstrating key tasks like data manipulation, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and more. Follow this guide, and you'll gain hands-on skills for developing accurate and scalable ML models in Python.

Formulating the Machine Learning Problem

The first step is understanding the problem you want to solve with ML and framing it appropriately. For instance, let's say we want to build a model to detect spam emails. Our problem formulation would involve:

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Daniel Parente

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