Machine Learning using Python, 2/e

Machine Learning using Python offers a comprehensive foundation in machine learning, blending theoretical concepts with practical applications. It is ideal for beginners and aspiring professionals, covering all essential topics to build a strong foundation in machine learning. The book begins with python language basics, statistics, probability, and exploratory data analysis, and then progresses to supervised learning techniques like linear and logistic regressions, decision trees, KNN, SVM, random forests, boosting, stacking, recommender systems, and text analytics. It also explores unsupervised learning techniques such as clustering, anomaly detection, and dimensionality reduction. The book also addresses advanced topics like ML explainability and MLOps, including model interpretation, deployment, and monitoring. Each chapter includes real-world use cases and step-by-step Python implementations using libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Sci kit-learn. The content reflects over 15 years of teaching experience of the authors in institutions like IIM Bangalore and ISB Hyderabad.

About the Author

Manaranjan Pradhan, an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, has about 20 years of industry experience working on Cloud computing, Big Data & Machine Learning projects. He worked with TCS, HP, and iGATE before becoming a freelance consultant providing consulting and training on Big data, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. He has been teaching Big Data and Machine Learning for 4 years and has trained more than 1000 persons from several large MNCs including EMC, Cisco, Tesco, HP, Goldman Sachs, Software AG and Amadeus.

U Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems at IIM Bangalore. Dr Dinesh Kumar has published more than 60 research articles in leading academic journals. Twenty Eight of his case studies on Business Analytics based on Indian and multinational organizations such as Aavin Milk Dairy, Apollo Hospitals, Bigbasket, Bollywood, Hewlett and Packard, Larsen & Toubro, Mission Hospital, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Premier League.