

Paperback: 420 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account (August 3, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1785887211
ISBN-13: 978-1785887215
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1 x 9.2 inches
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Disclosure: I was a technical reviewer of this book.Many books when their subject is Machine Learning with Python concentrate on a few most known and used libraries to explain Machine Learning tasks and solutions. Although I don't want to say that such books are useless for readers, they may still leave gaps in understanding of how a certain method or library would work in real-world scenarios. Authors of the book "Large Scale Machine Learning with Python" set up an ambitious goal to teach readers how to solve real-world Machine Learning problems by employing a variety of libraries, frameworks, and tools relying on Python. This advantageously differentiates a given book from many other books on the same subject.The following practical situations are considered and their solutions are presented:- Tall datasets when the number of cases is large, compared to the number of features.- Wide datasets when the number of features is large, compared to the number of cases.- Both tall and wide datasets when both the number of features and the number of cases are large.- Sparse datasets when there are many zero-valued elements.The book treats the problem of scalability from different angles, such as fast batch (offline) processing, incremental online processing (one instance at a time arrives), streaming processing (a chunk of instances at a time arrives) and distributed processing. Popular libraries and frameworks, such as Gensim, H2O, XGBoost, TensorFlow, Theano, Theanets, Keras, Vowpal Wabbit, and Spark and their applications are explained through numerous Python snippets. In my opinion, this is one of the first books presenting all these tools under one cover.
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