Machine Learning with Python Cookbook

Handling Numerical Data
4.0. Introduction
4.1. Rescaling a Feature
4.2. Standardizing a Feature
4.3. Normalizing Observations
4.4. Generating Polynomial and Interaction Features
4.5. Transforming Features
4.6. Detecting Outliers
4.7. Handling Outliers
4.8. Discretizating Features
4.9. Grouping Observations Using Clustering
4.10. Deleting Observations with Missing Values
4.11. Imputing Missing Values

Handling Categorical Data
5.0. Introduction
5.1. Encoding Nominal Categorical Features
5.2. Encoding Ordinal Categorical Features
5.3. Encoding Dictionaries of Features
5.4. Imputing Missing Class Values
5.5. Handling Imbalanced Classes

Handling Text
6.0. Introduction
6.1. Cleaning Text
6.2. Parsing and Cleaning HTML
6.3. Removing Punctuation
6.4. Tokenizing Text
6.5. Removing Stop Words
6.6. Stemming Words
6.7. Tagging Parts of Speech
6.8. Encoding Text as a Bag of Words
6.9. Weighting Word Importance

Handling Dates and Times
7.0. Introduction
7.1. Converting Strings to Dates
7.2. Handling Time Zones
7.3. Selecting Dates and Times
7.4. Breaking Up Date Data into Multiple Features
7.5. Calculating the Difference Between Dates
7.6. Encoding Days of the Week
7.7. Creating a Lagged Feature
7.8. Using Rolling Time Windows
7.9. Handling Missing Data in Time Series

Handling Images
8.0. Introduction
8.1. Loading Images
8.2. Saving Images
8.3. Resizing Images
8.4. Cropping Images
8.5. Blurring Images
8.6. Sharpening Images
8.7. Enhancing Contrast
8.8. Isolating Colors
8.9. Binarizing Images
8.10. Removing Backgrounds
8.11. Detecting Edges
8.12. Detecting Corners
8.13. Creating Features for Machine Learning
8.14. Encoding Mean Color as a Feature
8.15. Encoding Color Histograms as Features

Dimensionality Reduction Using Feature Extraction
9.0. Introduction
9.1. Reducing Features Using Principal Components
9.2. Reducing Features When Data Is Linearly Inseparable
9.3. Reducing Features by Maximizing Class Separability
9.4. Reducing Features Using Matrix Factorization
9.5. Reducing Features on Sparse Data

Dimensionality Reduction Using Feature Selection
10.0. Introduction
10.1. Thresholding Numerical Feature Variance
10.2. Thresholding Binary Feature Variance
10.3. Handling Highly Correlated Features
10.4. Removing Irrelevant Features for Classification
10.5. Recursively Eliminating Features

Model Evaluation
11.0. Introduction
11.1. Cross-Validating Models
11.2. Creating a Baseline Regression Model
11.3. Creating a Baseline Classification Model
11.4. Evaluating Binary Classifier Predictions
11.5. Evaluating Binary Classifier Thresholds
11.6. Evaluating Multiclass Classifier Predictions
11.7. Visualizing a Classifier’s Performance
11.8. Evaluating Regression Models
11.9. Evaluating Clustering Models
11.10. Creating a Custom Evaluation Metric
11.11. Visualizing the Effect of Training Set Size
11.12. Creating a Text Report of Evaluation Metrics
11.13. Visualizing the Effect of Hyperparameter Values

Model Selection
12.0. Introduction
12.1. Selecting Best Models Using Exhaustive Search
12.2. Selecting Best Models Using Randomized Search
12.3. Selecting Best Models from Multiple Learning Algorithms
12.4. Selecting Best Models When Preprocessing
12.5. Speeding Up Model Selection with Parallelization
12.6. Speeding Up Model Selection Using Algorithm-Specific Methods
12.7. Evaluating Performance After Model Selection

Linear Regression
13.0. Introduction
13.1. Fitting a Line
13.2. Handling Interactive Effects
13.3. Fitting a Nonlinear Relationship
13.4. Reducing Variance with Regularization
13.5. Reducing Features with Lasso Regression

Trees and Forests
14.0. Introduction
14.1. Training a Decision Tree Classifier
14.2. Training a Decision Tree Regressor
14.3. Visualizing a Decision Tree Model
14.4. Training a Random Forest Classifier
14.5. Training a Random Forest Regressor
14.6. Identifying Important Features in Random Forests
14.7. Selecting Important Features in Random Forests
14.8. Handling Imbalanced Classes
14.9. Controlling Tree Size
14.10. Improving Performance Through Boosting
14.11. Evaluating Random Forests with Out-of-Bag Errors

K-Nearest Neighbors
15.0. Introduction
15.1. Finding an Observation’s Nearest Neighbors
15.2. Creating a K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier
15.3. Identifying the Best Neighborhood Size
15.4. Creating a Radius-Based Nearest Neighbor Classifier

Logistic Regression
16.0. Introduction
16.1. Training a Binary Classifier
16.2. Training a Multiclass Classifier
16.3. Reducing Variance Through Regularization
16.4. Training a Classifier on Very Large Data
16.5. Handling Imbalanced Classes

Support Vector Machines
17.0. Introduction
17.1. Training a Linear Classifier
17.2. Handling Linearly Inseparable Classes Using Kernels
17.3. Creating Predicted Probabilities
17.4. Identifying Support Vectors
17.5. Handling Imbalanced Classes

Naive Bayes
18.0. Introduction
18.1. Training a Classifier for Continuous Features
18.2. Training a Classifier for Discrete and Count Features
18.3. Training a Naive Bayes Classifier for Binary Features
18.4. Calibrating Predicted Probabilities

Clustering
19.0. Introduction
19.1. Clustering Using K-Means
19.2. Speeding Up K-Means Clustering
19.3. Clustering Using Meanshift
19.4. Clustering Using DBSCAN
19.5. Clustering Using Hierarchical Merging

Neural Networks
20.0. Introduction
20.1. Preprocessing Data for Neural Networks
20.2. Designing a Neural Network
20.3. Training a Binary Classifier
20.4. Training a Multiclass Classifier
20.5. Training a Regressor
20.6. Making Predictions
20.7. Visualize Training History
20.8. Reducing Overfitting with Weight Regularization
20.9. Reducing Overfitting with Early Stopping
20.10. Reducing Overfitting with Dropout
20.11. Saving Model Training Progress
20.12. k-Fold Cross-Validating Neural Networks
20.13. Tuning Neural Networks
20.14. Visualizing Neural Networks
20.15. Classifying Images
20.16. Improving Performance with Image Augmentation
20.17. Classifying Text

Saving and Loading Trained Models
21.0. Introduction
21.1. Saving and Loading a scikit-learn Model
21.2. Saving and Loading a Keras Model

Index