This lucid textbook presents the theoretical foundations of machine learning algorithms, and then illustrates each concept with its detailed implementation in Python to allow beginners to effectively ...

However, in recent years the open source community has developed increasingly-sophisticated data manipulation, statistical analysis, and machine learning libraries for Python. We are now at the point ...

Implementations using Python and scikit-learn are available on the book's website. ‘By its nature, machine learning has always had evaluation at its heart. As the authors of this timely and important ...