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The Orange Book of Machine Learning - Green edition

The essentials of making predictions using supervised regression and classification for tabular data.

The essentials of making predictions using supervised regression and classification for tabular data. Tech stack: python, pandas, scikit-learn, CatBoost, LightGBM, XGBoost

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This 'Green' edition is actively maintained and will be subject to updates. Purchasers have permanent access to the very latest version and (should) be notified by email when an updated version is available for download (latest version: 2.2.0).

The book covers the following topics in the context of supervised learning for tabular data:

1. Introduction 

2. Statistics

3. Exploratory data analysis (EDA)

4. Data cleaning

5. Cross-validation

6. Interpolation and smoothing

7. Regression

8. Classification

9. Ensemble estimators

10. Hyperparameter optimization (HPO)

11. Feature engineering and selection

12. Why no neural networks/deep learning?

Book details:

  • Tech stack: python, pandas, scikit-learn, CatBoost, LightGBM, XGBoost
  • 186 pages, 12pt font size
  • A4 page size (210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in) suitable for printing. The pages are `long' (i.e. narrow top and bottom margins) so as to facilitate uninterrupted scrolling when read on a tablet
  • Over 130 original figures
  • No generative AI whatsoever has been used in the writing of this book

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Carl McBride Ellis

Carl is a freelance data scientist based in Madrid (Spain) specializing in predictive analytics and is also an adjunct university lecturer in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Statistics 3. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) 4. Data cleaning 5. Cross-validation 6. Interpolation and smoothing 7. Regression 8. Classification 9. Ensemble estimators 10. Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) 11. Feature engineering and selection 12. Why no neural networks/deep learning?

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