Python for Finance. Apply powerful finance models and quantitative analysis with Python - Second Edition

Yuxing Yan

This book uses Python as its computational tool. Since Python is free, any school ororganization can download and use it. This book is organized according to various finance subjects. In other words, the first edition focuses more on Python, while the second edition is truly trying to apply Python to finance.The book starts by explaining topics exclusively related to Python. Then we deal with critical parts of Python, explaining concepts such as time value of money stock and bond evaluations, capital asset pricing model, multi-factor models, time series analysis, portfolio theory,options and futures.This book will help us to learn or review the basics of quantitative finance and apply Python to solve various problems, such as estimating IBM’s market risk,running a Fama-French 3-factor, 5-factor, or Fama-French-Carhart 4 factor model, estimating the VaR of a 5-stock portfolio, estimating the optimal portfolio, and constructing the efficient frontier for a 20-stock portfolio with real-world stock, and with Monte Carlo Simulation. Later, we will also learn how to replicate the famous Black-Scholes-Merton option model and how to price exotic options such as the average price call option.

Python for TensorFlow Pocket Primer. A Quick Guide to Python Libraries for TensorFlow Developers

Mercury Learning and Information, Oswald Campesato

As part of the best-selling *Pocket Primer* series, this book prepares programmers for machine learning and deep learning with TensorFlow. It begins with a quick introduction to Python, followed by chapters on NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and scikit-learn. The final chapters provide TensorFlow 1.x code samples, including detailed examples for TensorFlow Dataset, crucial for TensorFlow 2.The journey starts with Python basics and progresses through essential data manipulation and visualization libraries. You'll explore machine learning fundamentals with scikit-learn before diving into TensorFlow, learning to construct data pipelines with TensorFlow Dataset APIs like map(), filter(), and batch().Understanding these concepts is vital for modern AI applications. This book transitions readers from basic programming to advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques, blending theory with practical skills. Companion files with source code enhance learning, making this an essential resource for mastering Python, machine learning, and TensorFlow.

Python Fundamentals. A practical guide for learning Python, complete with real-world projects for you to explore

Ryan Marvin, Mark Nganga, Amos Omondi

After a brief history of Python and key differences between Python 2 and Python 3, you'll understand how Python has been used in applications such as YouTube and Google App Engine. As you work with the language, you'll learn about control statements, delve into controlling program flow and gradually work on more structured programs via functions.As you settle into the Python ecosystem, you'll learn about data structures and study ways to correctly store and represent information. By working through specific examples, you'll learn how Python implements object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts of abstraction, encapsulation of data, inheritance, and polymorphism. You'll be given an overview of how imports, modules, and packages work in Python, how you can handle errors to prevent apps from crashing, as well as file manipulation.By the end of this book, you'll have built up an impressive portfolio of projects and armed yourself with the skills you need to tackle Python projects in the real world.

Python i AI dla e-commerce

Sebastian Kondracki

Sztuczna inteligencja według Pythona. Sięgnij po potężne wsparcie dla swojego e-sklepu E-commerce wspierany przez potężną moc sztucznej inteligencji ― to dla wielu właścicieli rodzimych firm internetowych wciąż brzmi jak odległa przyszłość. Może gdzieś tam, w Kalifornii, może u technologicznych gigantów, może Apple, Amazon, a bliżej nas, powiedzmy, Allegro korzysta lub będzie korzystać z chatbotów czy data-driven marketingu. Ale nasza firma do tej pory świetnie sobie radziła, to i dalej będzie sobie radzić z prostym mechanizmem sklepu online i kilkoma osobami obsługi. Marzenie ściętej głowy. Do 2025 roku w Polsce brakować będzie 200 tysięcy specjalistów w dziedzinie AI. I to nie w wielkich korporacjach. Głód programistów potrafiących kodować algorytmy sztucznej inteligencji odczują przede wszystkim firmy mniejsze i średnie. Jeśli jesteś właścicielem biznesu bazującego na sprzedaży w sieci, jeśli jesteś początkującym programistą albo działasz już jako programista e-commerce, ale chcesz się w tym kierunku rozwijać ― ta "książka kucharska" jest dla Ciebie. Dlaczego "książka kucharska"? Ponieważ podręcznik zawiera gotowe przepisy na algorytmy optymalizacyjne, systemy rekomendacyjne, przetwarzanie ogromnych ilości danych z ruchu odnotowanego w sklepie i zamianę ich w wiedzę o kliencie. Wszystko to już dziś wdrożysz w dowolnym e-sklepie stosunkowo małym kosztem. Zarówno przy użyciu gotowych programów napisanych w Pythonie przez ogromną społeczność miłośników AI i Pythona, jak i sprytnych produktów w modelu SaaS (ang. software as a service), sprzedawanych przez rzeszę polskich i zagranicznych startupów.

Python Machine Learning Blueprints. Put your machine learning concepts to the test by developing real-world smart projects - Second Edition

Alexander Combs, Michael Roman

Machine learning is transforming the way we understand and interact with the world around us. This book is the perfect guide for you to put your knowledge and skills into practice and use the Python ecosystem to cover key domains in machine learning. This second edition covers a range of libraries from the Python ecosystem, including TensorFlow and Keras, to help you implement real-world machine learning projects.The book begins by giving you an overview of machine learning with Python. With the help of complex datasets and optimized techniques, you’ll go on to understand how to apply advanced concepts and popular machine learning algorithms to real-world projects. Next, you’ll cover projects from domains such as predictive analytics to analyze the stock market and recommendation systems for GitHub repositories. In addition to this, you’ll also work on projects from the NLP domain to create a custom news feed using frameworks such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and Keras. Following this, you’ll learn how to build an advanced chatbot, and scale things up using PySpark. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to exciting insights into deep learning and you'll even create an application using computer vision and neural networks.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to analyze data seamlessly and make a powerful impact through your projects.

Python Machine Learning By Example. Build intelligent systems using Python, TensorFlow 2, PyTorch, and scikit-learn - Third Edition

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Python Machine Learning By Example, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive gateway into the world of machine learning (ML).With six new chapters, on topics including movie recommendation engine development with Naïve Bayes, recognizing faces with support vector machine, predicting stock prices with artificial neural networks, categorizing images of clothing with convolutional neural networks, predicting with sequences using recurring neural networks, and leveraging reinforcement learning for making decisions, the book has been considerably updated for the latest enterprise requirements.At the same time, this book provides actionable insights on the key fundamentals of ML with Python programming. Hayden applies his expertise to demonstrate implementations of algorithms in Python, both from scratch and with libraries.Each chapter walks through an industry-adopted application. With the help of realistic examples, you will gain an understanding of the mechanics of ML techniques in areas such as exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, classification, regression, clustering, and NLP.By the end of this ML Python book, you will have gained a broad picture of the ML ecosystem and will be well-versed in the best practices of applying ML techniques to solve problems.

Python Machine Learning By Example. Implement machine learning algorithms and techniques to build intelligent systems - Second Edition

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

The surge in interest in machine learning (ML) is due to the fact that it revolutionizes automation by learning patterns in data and using them to make predictions and decisions. If you’re interested in ML, this book will serve as your entry point to ML.Python Machine Learning By Example begins with an introduction to important ML concepts and implementations using Python libraries. Each chapter of the book walks you through an industry adopted application. You’ll implement ML techniques in areas such as exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and natural language processing (NLP) in a clear and easy-to-follow way.With the help of this extended and updated edition, you’ll understand how to tackle data-driven problems and implement your solutions with the powerful yet simple Python language and popular Python packages and tools such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, gensim, and Keras. To aid your understanding of popular ML algorithms, the book covers interesting and easy-to-follow examples such as news topic modeling and classification, spam email detection, stock price forecasting, and more.By the end of the book, you’ll have put together a broad picture of the ML ecosystem and will be well-versed with the best practices of applying ML techniques to make the most out of new opportunities.

Python Machine Learning By Example. The easiest way to get into machine learning

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Data science and machine learning are some of the top buzzwords in the technical world today. A resurging interest in machine learning is due to the same factors that have made data mining and Bayesian analysis more popular than ever. This book is your entry point to machine learning. This book starts with an introduction to machine learning and the Python language and shows you how to complete the setup. Moving ahead, you will learn all the important concepts such as, exploratory data analysis, data preprocessing, feature extraction, data visualization and clustering, classification, regression and model performance evaluation. With the help of various projects included, you will find it intriguing to acquire the mechanics of several important machine learning algorithms – they are no more obscure as they thought. Also, you will be guided step by step to build your own models from scratch. Toward the end, you will gather a broad picture of the machine learning ecosystem and best practices of applying machine learning techniques. Through this book, you will learn to tackle data-driven problems and implement your solutions with the powerful yet simple language, Python. Interesting and easy-to-follow examples, to name some, news topic classification, spam email detection, online ad click-through prediction, stock prices forecast, will keep you glued till you reach your goal.

Python Machine Learning By Example. Unlock machine learning best practices with real-world use cases - Fourth Edition

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

The fourth edition of Python Machine Learning By Example is a comprehensive guide for beginners and experienced machine learning practitioners who want to learn more advanced techniques, such as multimodal modeling. Written by experienced machine learning author and ex-Google machine learning engineer Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, this edition emphasizes best practices, providing invaluable insights for machine learning engineers, data scientists, and analysts.Explore advanced techniques, including two new chapters on natural language processing transformers with BERT and GPT, and multimodal computer vision models with PyTorch and Hugging Face. You’ll learn key modeling techniques using practical examples, such as predicting stock prices and creating an image search engine.This hands-on machine learning book navigates through complex challenges, bridging the gap between theoretical understanding and practical application. Elevate your machine learning and deep learning expertise, tackle intricate problems, and unlock the potential of advanced techniques in machine learning with this authoritative guide.

Python Machine Learning Cookbook. 100 recipes that teach you how to perform various machine learning tasks in the real world

Prateek Joshi

Machine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We’ll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you’ll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms. You’ll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.

Python Machine Learning Cookbook. Over 100 recipes to progress from smart data analytics to deep learning using real-world datasets - Second Edition

Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi

This eagerly anticipated second edition of the popular Python Machine Learning Cookbook will enable you to adopt a fresh approach to dealing with real-world machine learning and deep learning tasks.With the help of over 100 recipes, you will learn to build powerful machine learning applications using modern libraries from the Python ecosystem. The book will also guide you on how to implement various machine learning algorithms for classification, clustering, and recommendation engines, using a recipe-based approach. With emphasis on practical solutions, dedicated sections in the book will help you to apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to real-world problems. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with recipes that teach you advanced techniques including reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and automated machine learning.By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to apply machine learning techniques and leverage the full capabilities of the Python ecosystem through real-world examples.

Python. Machine learning i deep learning. Biblioteki scikit-learn i TensorFlow 2. Wydanie III

Sebastian Raschka, Vahid Mirjalili

Uczenie maszynowe jest jedną z najbardziej fascynujących technologii naszych czasów - rozwojem jego najróżniejszych zastosowań zajmują się tacy giganci jak Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon czy IBM. Uczenie maszynowe otwiera zupełnie nowe możliwości i powoli staje się nieodzowne: wystarczy wymienić asystenty głosowe w smartfonach, chatboty ułatwiające klientom wybór produktu, a także sieci ułatwiające podejmowanie decyzji o inwestycjach giełdowych, filtrujące niechciane wiadomości e-mail czy wspomagające diagnostykę medyczną. Oto obszerny przewodnik po uczeniu maszynowym i uczeniu głębokim w Pythonie. Zawiera dokładne omówienie najważniejszych technik uczenia maszynowego oraz staranne wyjaśnienie zasad rządzących tą technologią. Poszczególne zagadnienia zilustrowano mnóstwem wyjaśnień, wizualizacji i przykładów, co znakomicie ułatwia zrozumienie materiału i sprawne rozpoczęcie samodzielnego budowania aplikacji i modeli, takich jak te służące do klasyfikacji obrazów, odkrywania ukrytych wzorców czy wydobywania dodatkowych informacji z danych. Wydanie trzecie zostało zaktualizowane - znalazł się w nim opis biblioteki TensorFlow 2 i najnowszych dodatków do biblioteki scikit-learn. Dodano również wprowadzenie do dwóch nowatorskich technik: uczenia przez wzmacnianie i budowy generatywnych sieci przeciwstawnych (GAN). W książce między innymi: platformy, modele i techniki uczenia maszynowego wykorzystywanie biblioteki scikit-learn i TensorFlow sieci neuronowe, sieci GAN i inne przygotowywanie danych dla modeli uczenia maszynowego ocena i strojenie modeli analizy: regresyjna, skupień i sentymentów Uczenie głębokie z Pythonem: zrozum i zastosuj!

Python Machine Learning. Learn how to build powerful Python machine learning algorithms to generate useful data insights with this data analysis tutorial

Sebastian Raschka

Machine learning and predictive analytics are transforming the way businesses and other organizations operate. Being able to understand trends and patterns in complex data is critical to success, becoming one of the key strategies for unlocking growth in a challenging contemporary marketplace. Python can help you deliver key insights into your data – its unique capabilities as a language let you build sophisticated algorithms and statistical models that can reveal new perspectives and answer key questions that are vital for success.Python Machine Learning gives you access to the world of predictive analytics and demonstrates why Python is one of the world’s leading data science languages. If you want to ask better questions of data, or need to improve and extend the capabilities of your machine learning systems, this practical data science book is invaluable. Covering a wide range of powerful Python libraries, including scikit-learn, Theano, and Keras, and featuring guidance and tips on everything from sentiment analysis to neural networks, you’ll soon be able to answer some of the most important questions facing you and your organization.

Python Machine Learning. Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow - Second Edition

Sebastian Raschka, Vahid Mirjalili

Publisher's Note: This edition from 2017 is outdated and is not compatible with TensorFlow 2 or any of the most recent updates to Python libraries. A new third edition, updated for 2020 and featuring TensorFlow 2 and the latest in scikit-learn, reinforcement learning, and GANs, has now been published.Machine learning is eating the software world, and now deep learning is extending machine learning. Understand and work at the cutting edge of machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning with this second edition of Sebastian Raschka’s bestselling book, Python Machine Learning. Using Python's open source libraries, this book offers the practical knowledge and techniques you need to create and contribute to machine learning, deep learning, and modern data analysis.Fully extended and modernized, Python Machine Learning Second Edition now includes the popular TensorFlow 1.x deep learning library. The scikit-learn code has also been fully updated to v0.18.1 to include improvements and additions to this versatile machine learning library. Sebastian Raschka and Vahid Mirjalili’s unique insight and expertise introduce you to machine learning and deep learning algorithms from scratch, and show you how to apply them to practical industry challenges using realistic and interesting examples. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to meet the new data analysis opportunities.If you’ve read the first edition of this book, you’ll be delighted to find a balance of classical ideas and modern insights into machine learning. Every chapter has been critically updated, and there are new chapters on key technologies. You’ll be able to learn and work with TensorFlow 1.x more deeply than ever before, and get essential coverage of the Keras neural network library, along with updates to scikit-learn 0.18.1.

Python Machine Learning. Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow 2 - Third Edition

Sebastian Raschka, Vahid Mirjalili

Python Machine Learning, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to machine learning and deep learning with Python. It acts as both a step-by-step tutorial, and a reference you'll keep coming back to as you build your machine learning systems.Packed with clear explanations, visualizations, and working examples, the book covers all the essential machine learning techniques in depth. While some books teach you only to follow instructions, with this machine learning book, Raschka and Mirjalili teach the principles behind machine learning, allowing you to build models and applications for yourself.Updated for TensorFlow 2.0, this new third edition introduces readers to its new Keras API features, as well as the latest additions to scikit-learn. It's also expanded to cover cutting-edge reinforcement learning techniques based on deep learning, as well as an introduction to GANs. Finally, this book also explores a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) called sentiment analysis, helping you learn how to use machine learning algorithms to classify documents.This book is your companion to machine learning with Python, whether you're a Python developer new to machine learning or want to deepen your knowledge of the latest developments.

Python Natural Language Processing. Advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques for natural language processing

Jalaj Thanaki

This book starts off by laying the foundation for Natural Language Processing and why Python is one of the best options to build an NLP-based expert system with advantages such as Community support, availability of frameworks and so on. Later it gives you a better understanding of available free forms of corpus and different types of dataset. After this, you will know how to choose a dataset for natural language processing applications and find the right NLP techniques to process sentences in datasets and understand their structure. You will also learn how to tokenize different parts of sentences and ways to analyze them. During the course of the book, you will explore the semantic as well as syntactic analysis of text. You will understand how to solve various ambiguities in processing human language and will come across various scenarios while performing text analysis. You will learn the very basics of getting the environment ready for natural language processing, move on to the initial setup, and then quickly understand sentences and language parts. You will learn the power of Machine Learning and Deep Learning to extract information from text data.By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of natural language processing and will have worked on multiple examples that implement NLP in the real world.

Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook. Over 60 recipes for building powerful NLP solutions using Python and LLM libraries - Second Edition

Zhenya Antić, Saurabh Chakravarty, Edward A. Fox

Harness the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to overcome real-world text analysis challenges with this recipe-based roadmap written by two seasoned NLP experts with vast experience transforming various industries with their NLP prowess.You’ll be able to make the most of the latest NLP advancements, including large language models (LLMs), and leverage their capabilities through Hugging Face transformers. Through a series of hands-on recipes, you’ll master essential techniques such as extracting entities and visualizing text data. The authors will expertly guide you through building pipelines for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and question-answering using popular libraries like spaCy, Gensim, and NLTK. You’ll also learn to implement RAG pipelines to draw out precise answers from a text corpus using LLMs.This second edition expands your skillset with new chapters on cutting-edge LLMs like GPT-4, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Explainable AI (XAI)—fostering trust in your NLP models.By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the skills to apply advanced text processing techniques, use pre-trained transformer models, build custom NLP pipelines to extract valuable insights from text data to drive informed decision-making.

Python. Podstawy nauki o danych. Wydanie II

Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron

Nauka o danych jest nową, interdyscyplinarną dziedziną, funkcjonującą na pograniczu algebry liniowej, modelowania statystycznego, lingwistyki komputerowej, uczenia maszynowego oraz metod akumulacji danych. Jest przydatna między innymi dla analityków biznesowych, statystyków, architektów oprogramowania i osób zajmujących się sztuczną inteligencją. Szczególnie praktycznym narzędziem dla tych specjalistów jest język Python, który zapewnia doskonałe środowisko do analizy danych, uczenia maszynowego i algorytmicznego rozwiązywania problemów. Niniejsza książka jest doskonałym wprowadzeniem do nauki o danych. Jej autorzy wskażą Ci prostą i szybką drogę do rozwiązywania różnych problemów z tego obszaru za pomocą Pythona oraz powiązanych z nim pakietów do analizy danych i uczenia maszynowego. Dzięki lekturze przejdziesz przez kolejne etapy modyfikowania i wstępnego przetwarzania danych, poznając przy tym podstawowe operacje związane z wczytywaniem danych, przekształcaniem ich, poprawianiem na potrzeby analiz, eksplorowaniem i przetwarzaniem. Poza podstawami opanujesz też zagadnienia uczenia maszynowego, w tym uczenia głębokiego, techniki analizy grafów oraz wizualizacji danych. Najważniejsze zagadnienia przedstawione w książce: konfiguracja środowiska Jupyter Notebook najważniejsze operacje stosowane w nauce o danych potoki danych i uczenie maszynowe wprowadzenie do grafów i wizualizacje biblioteki i pakiety Pythona służące do badań danych Nauka o danych — fascynujące algorytmy i potężne grafy! Alberto Boschetti specjalizuje się w przetwarzaniu sygnałów i statystyce. Jest doktorem inżynierii telekomunikacyjnej. Zajmuje się przetwarzaniem języków naturalnych, analityką behawioralną, uczeniem maszynowym i przetwarzaniem rozproszonym. Luca Massaron specjalizuje się w statystycznych analizach wieloczynnikowych, uczeniu maszynowym, statystyce, eksploracji danych i algorytmice. Pasjonuje się potencjałem, jaki drzemie w nauce o danych.

Python: Real World Machine Learning. Take your Python Machine learning skills to the next level

Prateek Joshi, Luca Massaron, John Hearty, Alberto Boschetti, ...

Machine learning is increasingly spreading in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. Machine learning is transforming the way we understand and interact with the world around us.In the first module, Python Machine Learning Cookbook, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks using a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms.The second module, Advanced Machine Learning with Python, is designed to take you on a guided tour of the most relevant and powerful machine learning techniques and you’ll acquire a broad set of powerful skills in the area of feature selection and feature engineering.The third module in this learning path, Large Scale Machine Learning with Python, dives into scalable machine learning and the three forms of scalability. It covers the most effective machine learning techniques on a map reduce framework in Hadoop and Spark in Python.This Learning Path will teach you Python machine learning for the real world. The machine learning techniques covered in this Learning Path are at the forefront of commercial practice.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:? Python Machine Learning Cookbook by Prateek Joshi? Advanced Machine Learning with Python by John Hearty? Large Scale Machine Learning with Python by Bastiaan Sjardin, Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron

Python: Real-World Data Science. Real-World Data Science

Fabrizio Romano, Dusty Phillips, Phuong Vo.T.H, Martin Czygan, ...

The Python: Real-World Data Science course will take you on a journey to become an efficient data science practitioner by thoroughly understanding the key concepts of Python. This learning path is divided into four modules and each module are a mini course in their own right, and as you complete each one, you’ll have gained key skills and be ready for the material in the next module. The course begins with getting your Python fundamentals nailed down. After getting familiar with Python core concepts, it’s time that you dive into the field of data science. In the second module, you'll learn how to perform data analysis using Python in a practical and example-driven way. The third module will teach you how to design and develop data mining applications using a variety of datasets, starting with basic classification and affinity analysis to more complex data types including text, images, and graphs. Machine learning and predictive analytics have become the most important approaches to uncover data gold mines. In the final module, we'll discuss the necessary details regarding machine learning concepts, offering intuitive yet informative explanations on how machine learning algorithms work, how to use them, and most importantly, how to avoid the common pitfalls.

Python Reinforcement Learning Projects. Eight hands-on projects exploring reinforcement learning algorithms using TensorFlow

Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

Reinforcement learning is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields in machine learning. This is due to the many novel algorithms developed and incredible results published in recent years.In this book, you will learn about the core concepts of RL including Q-learning, policy gradients, Monte Carlo processes, and several deep reinforcement learning algorithms. As you make your way through the book, you'll work on projects with datasets of various modalities including image, text, and video. You will gain experience in several domains, including gaming, image processing, and physical simulations. You'll explore technologies such as TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym to implement deep learning reinforcement learning algorithms that also predict stock prices, generate natural language, and even build other neural networks.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience with eight reinforcement learning projects, each addressing different topics and/or algorithms. We hope these practical exercises will provide you with better intuition and insight about the field of reinforcement learning and how to apply its algorithms to various problems in real life.

Python Social Media Analytics. Analyze and visualize data from Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, and more

Siddhartha Chatterjee, Michal Krystyanczuk

Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Forums, Pinterest, and YouTube have become part of everyday life in a big way. However, these complex and noisy data streams pose a potent challenge to everyone when it comes to harnessing them properly and benefiting from them. This book will introduce you to the concept of social media analytics, and how you can leverage its capabilities to empower your business.Right from acquiring data from various social networking sources such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and social forums, you will see how to clean data and make it ready for analytical operations using various Python APIs. This book explains how to structure the clean data obtained and store in MongoDB using PyMongo. You will also perform web scraping and visualize data using Scrappy and Beautifulsoup. Finally, you will be introduced to different techniques to perform analytics at scale for your social data on the cloud, using Python and Spark. By the end of this book, you will be able to utilize the power of Python to gain valuable insights from social media data and use them to enhance your business processes.

Python Tools for Data Scientists Pocket Primer. A Quick Guide to Essential Python Libraries for Data Science

Mercury Learning and Information, Oswald Campesato

This book, part of the best-selling Pocket Primer series, offers a comprehensive introduction to essential Python tools for data scientists. It begins with an overview of Python basics, followed by in-depth coverage of NumPy and Pandas, focusing on their features and applications. The text also addresses the critical tasks of writing regular expressions and performing data cleaning.Further sections delve into data visualization techniques and the use of Sklearn and SciPy, providing practical knowledge and skills for handling complex data analysis tasks. This structured approach ensures that readers gain a complete understanding of the tools and techniques necessary for effective data science.Designed to be accessible yet thorough, this book includes numerous code samples to reinforce learning. Companion files with source code are available for download, making it an invaluable resource for anyone looking to master Python for data science and enhance their data analysis capabilities.

Python. Uczenie maszynowe

Sebastian Raschka

Sprawdź drugie wydanie tej książki >> --- Uczenie maszynowe, zajmujące się algorytmami analizującymi dane, stanowi chyba najciekawszą dziedzinę informatyki. W czasach, w których generuje się olbrzymie ilości danych, samouczące się algorytmy maszynowe stanowią wyjątkową metodę przekształcania tych danych w wiedzę. W ten sposób powstało wiele innowacyjnych technologii, a możliwości uczenia maszynowego są coraz większe. Nieocenioną pomoc w rozwijaniu tej dziedziny stanowią liczne nowe biblioteki open source, które pozwalają na budowanie algorytmów w języku Python, będącym ulubionym, potężnym i przystępnym narzędziem naukowców i analityków danych. Niniejsza książka jest lekturą obowiązkową dla każdego, kto chce rozwinąć swoją wiedzę o danych naukowych i zamierza w tym celu wykorzystać język Python. Przystępnie opisano tu teoretyczne podstawy dziedziny i przedstawiono wyczerpujące informacje o działaniu algorytmów uczenia maszynowego, sposobach ich wykorzystania oraz metodach unikania poważnych błędów. Zaprezentowano również biblioteki Theano i Keras, sposoby przewidywania wyników docelowych za pomocą analizy regresywnej oraz techniki wykrywania ukrytych wzorców metodą analizy skupień. Nie zabrakło opisu technik przetwarzania wstępnego i zasad oceny modeli uczenia maszynowego. W tej książce: podstawowe rodzaje uczenia maszynowego i ich zastosowanie, biblioteka scikit-learn i klasyfikatory uczenia maszynowego, wydajne łączenie różnych algorytmów uczących, analiza sentymentów — przewidywanie opinii osób na podstawie sposobu pisania, praca z nieoznakowanymi danymi — uczenie nienadzorowane, tworzenie i trenowanie sieci neuronowych. Uczenie maszynowe — odkryj wiedzę, którą niosą dane!