Java Machine Learning

Last Updated on September 29, 2016 Are you a Java programmer and looking to get started or practice machine learning? Writing programs that make use of machine learning is the best way to learn machine learning. You can write the algorithms yourself from scratch, but you can make a lot more progress if you leverage an existing open source library. In this post you will discover the major platforms and open source machine learning libraries you can use in Java. […]

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Applied Machine Learning Lessons from A Case Study of Passenger Survival Prediction

Last Updated on August 22, 2019 A valuable exercise when learning and practicing machine learning is to study how others apply methods and solve problems. It’s valuable because you can learn about new processes, software, graphs, and algorithms. But it is new ways of thinking about the process of solving problems with machine learning that is the most valuable part of the exercise. In this post you will review Curt Wehrley approach for predicting passenger survival on the Titanic, a […]

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Linear Regression in R

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 In this post you will discover 4 recipes for linear regression for the R platform. You can copy and paste the recipes in this post to make a jump-start on your own problem or to learn and practice with linear regression in R. Kick-start your project with my new book Machine Learning Mastery With R, including step-by-step tutorials and the R source code files for all examples. Let’s get started. Ordinary Least Squares RegressionSome […]

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Penalized Regression in R

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 In this post you will discover 3 recipes for penalized regression for the R platform. You can copy and paste the recipes in this post to make a jump-start on your own problem or to learn and practice with linear regression in R. Kick-start your project with my new book Machine Learning Mastery With R, including step-by-step tutorials and the R source code files for all examples. Let’s get started. Penalized RegressionPhoto by Bay Area […]

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Non-Linear Regression in R

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 In this post you will discover 4 recipes for non-linear regression in R. There are many advanced methods you can use for non-linear regression, and these recipes are but a sample of the methods you could use. Kick-start your project with my new book Machine Learning Mastery With R, including step-by-step tutorials and the R source code files for all examples. Let’s get started. Non-Linear RegressionPhoto by Steve Jurvetson, some rights reserved Each example […]

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Non-Linear Regression in R with Decision Trees

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 In this post, you will discover 8 recipes for non-linear regression with decision trees in R. Each example in this post uses the longley dataset provided in the datasets package that comes with R. The longley dataset describes 7 economic variables observed from 1947 to 1962 used to predict the number of people employed yearly. Kick-start your project with my new book Machine Learning Mastery With R, including step-by-step tutorials and the R source code files for all […]

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Model Prediction Accuracy Versus Interpretation in Machine Learning

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 In their book Applied Predictive Modeling, Kuhn and Johnson comment early on the trade-off of model prediction accuracy versus model interpretation. For a given problem, it is critical to have a clear idea of the which is a priority, accuracy or explainability so that this trade-off can be made explicitly rather than implicitly. In this post you will discover and consider this important trade-off. Model Accuracy vs ExplainabilityPhoto by Donald Hobern, some rights reserved […]

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Improve Model Accuracy with Data Pre-Processing

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 Data preparation can make or break the predictive ability of your model. In Chapter 3 of their book Applied Predictive Modeling, Kuhn and Johnson introduce the process of data preparation. They refer to it as the addition, deletion or transformation of training set data. In this post you will discover the data pre-process steps that you can use to improve the predictive ability of your models. Kick-start your project with my new book Data […]

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Clever Application Of A Predictive Model

Last Updated on August 15, 2020 What if you could use a predictive model to find new combinations of attributes that do not exist in the data but could be valuable. In Chapter 10 of Applied Predictive Modeling, Kuhn and Johnson provide a case study that does just this. It’s a fascinating and creative example of how to use a predictive model. In this post we will discover this less obvious use of a predictive model and the types of […]

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Linear Classification in R

Last Updated on August 22, 2019 In this post you will discover recipes for 3 linear classification algorithms in R. All recipes in this post use the iris flowers dataset provided with R in the datasets package. The dataset describes the measurements if iris flowers and requires classification of each observation to one of three flower species. Kick-start your project with my new book Machine Learning Mastery With R, including step-by-step tutorials and the R source code files for all […]

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