Building.Machine.Learning.Systems.with.Python.pdf

Building Machine Learning

Systems with Python

Master the art of machine learning with Python and

build effective machine learning systems with this

intensive hands-on guide

Willi Richert

Luis Pedro Coelho

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

Building Machine Learning Systems with Python

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First published: July 2013

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Credits

Authors

Willi Richert

Luis Pedro Coelho

Reviewers

Matthieu Brucher

Mike Driscoll

Maurice HT Ling

Acquisition Editor

Kartikey Pandey

Lead Technical Editor

Copy Editors

Insiya Morbiwala

Aditya Nair

Alda Paiva

Laxmi Subramanian

Project Coordinator

Anurag Banerjee

Proofreader

Paul Hindle

Indexer

Aditi Gajjar

About the Authors

Willi Richert has a PhD in Machine Learning and Robotics, and he currently works

for Microsoft in the Core Relevance Team of Bing, where he is involved in a variety

of machine learning areas such as active learning and statistical machine translation.

This book would not have been possible without the support of my

wife Natalie and my sons Linus and Moritz. I am also especially

grateful for the many fruitful discussions with my current and

previous managers, Andreas Bode, Clemens Marschner, Hongyan

Zhou, and Eric Crestan, as well as my colleagues and friends,

Tomasz Marciniak, Cristian Eigel, Oliver Niehoerster, and Philipp