Large Scale Machine Learning with Python

Sjardin, Bastiaan|Massaron, Luca|Boschetti, Alberto

ISBN 10: 1785887211 / ISBN 13: 9781785887215

Published by Packt Publishing, 2016

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Large Scale Machine Learning with Python
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785887211
• ISBN 13: 9781785887215
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Learn to build powerful machine learning models quickly and deploy large-scale predictive applications

Key Features

• Design, engineer and deploy scalable machine learning solutions with the power of Python
• Take command of Hadoop and Spark with Python for effective machine learning on a map reduce framework
• Build state-of-the-art models and develop personalized recommendations to perform machine learning at scale

Book Description

Large Python machine learning projects involve new problems associated with specialized machine learning architectures and designs that many data scientists have yet to tackle. But finding algorithms and designing and building platforms that deal with large sets of data is a growing need. Data scientists have to manage and maintain increasingly complex data projects, and with the rise of big data comes an increasing demand for computational and algorithmic efficiency. Large Scale Machine Learning with Python uncovers a new wave of machine learning algorithms that meet scalability demands together with a high predictive accuracy.

Dive into scalable machine learning and the three forms of scalability. Speed up algorithms that can be used on a desktop computer with tips on parallelization and memory allocation. Get to grips with new algorithms that are specifically designed for large projects and can handle bigger files, and learn about machine learning in big data environments. We will also cover the most effective machine learning techniques on a map reduce framework in Hadoop and Spark in Python.

What you will learn

• Apply the most scalable machine learning algorithms
• Work with modern state-of-the-art large-scale machine learning techniques
• Increase predictive accuracy with deep learning and scalable data-handling techniques
• Improve your work by combining the MapReduce framework with Spark
• Build powerful ensembles at scale
• Use data streams to train linear and non-linear predictive models from extremely large datasets using a single machine

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who intends to work with large and complex data sets. Familiarity with basic Python and machine learning concepts is recommended. Working knowledge in statistics and computational mathematics would also be helpful.

About the Author

Bastiaan Sjardin is a data scientist and entrepreneur with a background in artificial intelligence and mathematics. He has an MSc degree in cognitive science and mathematical statistics from the University of Leiden. In the past 5 years, he has worked on a wide range of data science projects. He is a frequent community TA at Coursera in the social network analysis course from the University of Michigan and the practical machine learning course from Johns Hopkins University. His programming languages of choice are Python and R. Currently, he is the cofounder of Quandbee, a company providing machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.

Luca Massaron Luca Massaron is a data scientist and a marketing research director who is specialized in multivariate statistical analysis, machine learning, and customer insight with over a decade of experience in solving real-world problems and in generating value for stakeholders by applying reasoning, statistics, data mining, and algorithms. From being a pioneer of Web audience analysis in Italy to achieving the rank of a top ten Kaggler, he has always been very passionate about everything regarding data and its analysis and also about demonstrating the potential of data-driven knowledge discovery to both experts and non-experts. Favoring simplicity over unnecessary sophistication, he believes that a lot can be achieved in data science just by doing the essentials.

Alberto Boschetti Alberto Boschetti is a data scientist, with an expertise in signal processing and statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering and currently lives and works in London. In his work projects, he faces daily challenges that span from natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to distributed processing. He is very passionate about his job and always tries to stay updated about the latest developments in data science technologies, attending meet-ups, conferences, and other events.