Scala for machine learning : leverage scala and machine learning to construct and study systems that can learn from data / Patrick R. Nicolas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicolas, Patrick R., author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

R. Nicolas Patrick: Patrick R. Nicolas is the director of engineering at Agile SDE, California. He has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering and building applications in C++, Java, and more recently in Scala/Spark, and has held several managerial positions. His interests include real-time analytics, modeling, and the development of nonlinear models.

Summary:

Are you curious about AI? All you need is a good understanding of the Scala programming language, a basic knowledge of statistics, a keen interest in Big Data processing, and this book!

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Mathematical notation for the curious; Why machine learning?; Classification; Prediction; Optimization; Regression; Why Scala?; Abstraction; Scalability; Configurability; Maintainability; Computation on demand; Model categorization; Taxonomy of machine learning algorithms; Unsupervised learning; Clustering; Dimension reduction; Supervised learning; Generative models; Discriminative models; Reinforcement learning; Tools and frameworks; Java; Scala

Apache Commons MathDescription; Licensing; Installation; JFreeChart; Description; Licensing; Installation; Other libraries and frameworks; Source code; Context versus view bounds; Presentation; Primitives and implicits; Primitive types; Type conversions; Operators; Immutability; Performance of Scala iterators; Let's kick the tires; Overview of computational workflows; Writing a simple workflow; Selecting a dataset; Loading the dataset; Preprocessing the dataset; Creating a model (learning); Classify the data; Summary; Chapter 2: Hello World!; Modeling; A model by any other name

Model versus designSelecting a model's features; Extracting features; Designing a workflow; The computational framework; The pipe operator; Monadic data transformation; Dependency injection; Workflow modules; The workflow factory; Examples of workflow components; The preprocessing module; The clustering module; Assessing a model; Validation; Key metrics; Implementation; K-fold cross-validation; Bias-variance decomposition; Overfitting; Summary; Chapter 3: Data Preprocessing; Time series; Moving averages; The simple moving average; The weighted moving average; The exponential moving average

Fourier analysisDiscrete Fourier transform (DFT); DFT-based filtering; Detection of market cycles; The Kalman filter; The state space estimation; The transition equation; The measurement equation; The recursive algorithm; Prediction; Correction; Kalman smoothing; Experimentation; Alternative preprocessing techniques; Summary; Chapter 4: Unsupervised Learning; Clustering; K-means clustering; Measuring similarity; Overview of the K-means algorithm; Step 1 - cluster configuration; Step 2 - cluster assignment; Step 3 - iterative reconstruction; Curse of dimensionality; Experiment

Tuning the number of clustersValidation; Expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm; Gaussian mixture model; EM overview; Implementation; Testing; Online EM; Dimension reduction; Principal components analysis (PCA); Algorithm; Implementation; Test case; Evaluation; Other dimension reduction techniques; Performance considerations; K-means; EM; PCA; Summary; Chapter 5: Naïve Bayes Classifiers; Probabilistic graphical models; Naïve Bayes classifiers; Introducing the multinomial Naïve Bayes; Formalism; The frequentist perspective; The predictive model; The zero-frequency problem; Implementation

Software design

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783558759

178355875X

OCLC:

900788582