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Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

You're reading from Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python Discover hidden patterns and relationships in unstructured data with Python

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789952292

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Scikit-learn

Concepts

Machine Learning

Authors (3):

Benjamin Johnston

Aaron Jones

Christopher Kruger

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

About the Book

1. Chapter 1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Clustering

3. Chapter 2

4. Hierarchical Clustering

5. Chapter 3

6. Neighborhood Approaches and DBSCAN

7. Chapter 4

8. Dimension Reduction and PCA

9. Chapter 5

10. Autoencoders

11. Chapter 6

12. t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE)

13. Chapter 7

14. Topic Modeling

15. Chapter 8

16. Market Basket Analysis

17. Chapter 9

18. Hotspot Analysis

Appendix

Neighborhood Approaches and DBSCAN

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

Understand how neighborhood approaches to clustering work from beginning to end
Implement the DBSCAN algorithm from scratch by using packages
Identify the best suited algorithm from k-means, hierarchical clustering, and DBSCAN to solve your problem

In this chapter, we will have a look at DBSCAN clustering approach that will serve us best in the highly complex data.

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Authors (3)

Benjamin Johnston

Benjamin Johnston

Benjamin Johnston is a senior data scientist for one of the world's leading data-driven MedTech companies and is involved in the development of innovative digital solutions throughout the entire product development pathway, from problem definition to solution research and development, through to final deployment. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in machine learning, specializing in image processing and deep convolutional neural networks. He has more than 10 years of experience in medical device design and development, working in a variety of technical roles, and holds first-class honors bachelor's degrees in both engineering and medical science from the University of Sydney, Australia.

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Aaron Jones

Aaron Jones

Aaron Jones is a full-time senior data scientist and consultant. He has built models and data products while working in retail, media, and environmental science. Aaron is based in Seattle, Washington and has a particular interest in clustering algorithms, natural language processing, and Bayesian statistics.

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Christopher Kruger

Christopher Kruger

Christopher Kruger is a practicing data scientist and AI researcher. He has managed applied machine learning projects across multiple industries while mentoring junior team members on best practices. His primary focus is on pushing both business practicality as well as academic rigor in every project. Chris is currently developing research in the computer vision space.

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