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Machine-learning algorithms often have tests baked in, but they cant account for human errors in coding. Rather than blindly rely on machine-learning results as many researchers have, you can mitigate the risk of errors with TDD and write clean, stable machine-learning code. If youre familiar with Ruby 2.1, youre ready to start.
Apply TDD to write and run tests before you start coding Learn the best uses and tradeoffs of eight machine learning algorithms Use real-world examples to test each algorithm through engaging, hands-on exercises Understand the similarities between TDD and the scientific method for validating solutions Be aware of the risks of machine learning, such as underfitting and overfitting data Explore techniques for improving your machine-learning models or data extraction
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by Matthew Kirk
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This book is about approaching tough problems. Machine learning is an amazing application of computation because it tackles problems that are straight out of science fiction. These algorithms can solve voice recognition, mapping, recommendations, and disease detection. The applications are endless, which is what makes machine learning so fascinating.
This flexibility is also what makes machine learning daunting. It can solve many problems, but how do we know whether were solving the right problem, or actually solving it in the first place? On top of that sadly much of academic coding standards are lax.
Up until this moment there hasnt been a lot of talk about writing good quality code when it comes to machine learning and that is unfortunate. The ability for us to disseminate an idea across an entire industry is based on our ability to communicate it effectively. And if we write bad code, its doubtful a lot of people will listen.
Writing this book is my answer to that problem. Teaching machine learning to people in an easier to approach way. This subject is tough, and its compounded by hard to read code, or ancient C implementations that make zero sense.
While a lot of people will be confused as to why this book is written in Ruby instead of Python, its because writing tests in Ruby is a beautiful way of explaining your code. The entire book taking this test driven approach is about communication, and communicating the beautiful world of Machine Learning.
This book is not an exhaustive machine learning resource. For that Id highly recommend Peter Flachs Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press) or if you are mathematically inclined, Tom Mitchells Machine Learning series is top notch. There are also great tidbits from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Third Edition by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (Prentice Hall).
After reading this book you will not have a PhD in machine learning, but I hope to give you enough information to get working on real problems using data with machine learning. You should expect lots of examples of the approach to problems as well as how to use them at a fundamental level.
You should also find yourself learning how to approach problems that are more fuzzy than the normal unit testing scenario.
The best way to read this book is to find examples that excite you. Each chapter aims to be fairly contained, although at times they wont be. My goal for this book is not to be purely theoretical but to introduce you to some examples of problems that machine learning can solve for you as well as some worked out samples of how Id approach working with data.
In most of the chapters, I try to introduce some business cases in the beginning then delve into a worked out example toward the end. This book is intended as a short read because I want you to focus on working with the code and thinking about these problems instead of getting steeped up in theory.
There are three main people I have written the book for: the developer, the CTO, and the business analyst.
The developer already knows how to write code and is interested in learning more about the exciting world of machine learning. She has some background in working out problems in a computational context and may or may not write Ruby. The book is primarily focused on this persona but there is also the CTO and the business analyst.
The CTO is someone who really wants to know how to utilize machine learning to improve his company. He might have heard of K-Means, K-Nearest Neighbors but hasnt quite figured out how its applicable to him. The business analyst is similar except that she is less technically inclined. These two personas I wrote the start of every chapter for.
I love receiving emails from people who either liked a presentation I gave or need help with a problem. Feel free to email me at matt@matthewkirk.com. And to cement this, I will gladly buy you a cup of coffee if you come to the Seattle area (and our schedules permit).
If youd like to view any of the code in this book, its free at GitHub.
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