Learning Data Mining with Python

by Robert Layton (Author)

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Harness the power of Python to analyze data and create insightful predictive models

About This Book

Learn data mining in practical terms, using a wide variety of libraries and techniques
Learn how to find, manipulate, and analyze data using Python
Step-by-step instructions on creating real-world applications of data mining techniques

Who This Book Is For

If you are a programmer who wants to get started with data mining, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

Apply data mining concepts to real-world problems
Predict the outcome of sports matches based on past results
Determine the author of a document based on their writing style
Use APIs to download datasets from social media and other online services
Find and extract good features from difficult datasets
Create models that solve real-world problems
Design and develop data mining applications using a variety of datasets
Set up reproducible experiments and generate robust results
Recommend movies, online celebrities, and news articles based on personal preferences
Compute on big data, including real-time data from the Internet

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The next step in the information age is to gain insights from the deluge of data coming our way. Data mining provides a way of finding this insight, and Python is one of the most popular languages for data mining, providing both power and flexibility in analysis.

This book teaches you to design and develop data mining applications using a variety of datasets, starting with basic classification and affinity analysis. Next, we move on to more complex data types including text, images, and graphs. In every chapter, we create models that solve real-world problems.

There is a rich and varied set of libraries available in Python for data mining. This book covers a large number, including the IPython Notebook, pandas, scikit-learn and NLTK.

Each chapter of this book introduces you to new algorithms and techniques. By the end of the book, you will gain a large insight into using Python for data mining, with a good knowledge and understanding of the algorithms and implementations.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (July 29, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1784396052
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784396053
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches

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William P RossTop Contributor: Architecture

Decent Data Mining Content; Poorly Published

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2016

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The content in the book was a reasonable sampling of data mining techniques. One interesting chapter for me was predicting sports matches based off past results. Another topic was recommending movies based off what a user has liked before. This book gave me a decent place to start researching more about these topics, but I wish the book had gone in depth more on fewer topics than sampling a lot of topics.

My main issue is with the publisher. There were tons of typos in this book including formatting errors. Some of the sample code did not work as well.

I then tried to go to Packt and download the sample code. I registered for their site and nothing came to my email (I checked my junk mail as well). Next, I emailed the publisher asking for access and asking how I can prove that I own the book... they never responded. At this point it was not worth it for me to pursue further. With most other books offering the code for free on GitHub I do not understand at all why this material is behind a registration wall. Additionally, the price for this book is quite high as with all the Packt books, so there should not be errors like this.

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Grinding through the errors

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2015

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The text tries hard to be accessible, the author makes a point of sacrificing complexity to provide clear examples. Often explanations, concepts, and machine learning functions are left to the reader to investigate on their own. I have no problem with any of this, however the text is rife with typos both in the explanations and in the code. Particularly egregious examples of the poor editing include calling the wrong name object in the example code, not a typo in the object-name the wrong object all together, and mixing up the training and test sets while performing a model build.

To make matters worse the text is essentially paraphrasing the iPython Notebooks that make up bulk of this book. The book only contains code snippets which are discussed in the context of any given lesson, such that without the notebooks the code examples are incomplete. The complete code examples, provided in the iPython Notebooks, lack any description, such that reading the text requires moving between the book and the browser based notebooks to combine the disjoint material. Furthermore to download the notebook material, without which the book is worthless, you are forced to register with Packt Publishing. I was very unhappy to learn that this book costs only five dollars on Packt when downloaded as an ebook. (it may have been on sale)

All in all, I'm still going to grind through this book since it has been helpful for introducing some high level machine learning concepts and functions. If the typos were cleaned up it would be a solid 3.5 stars. Oddly enough for five dollars I'd even recommend this to folks, but with a disclaimer that it will be a slog trying to untangle the mistakes and omissions.

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Fine for introducing the learner to data mining with Python

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2016

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Fine for introducing the learner to data mining with Python...but not much else. Many typos in the code and text, key concepts and vocabulary poorly assumed to be understood by the reader. Not good continuity either. Definitely written by a committee.

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Dimitri Shvorob

Good, original book

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016

Wishing to learn Python's machine-learning toolkit - I am an emigrant from R Country - I rounded up several relevant books, and set out to narrow the field to one or two suitable for further study. My haul included (in no particular order)

"Machine Learning in Python" by Bowles, published in 2015 by Wiley, 360 pages, $25 for the cheapest hardcopy now available from Amazon (including shipping)
"Designing Machine Learning Systems with Python" by Julian, 2016, Packt, 232 pages, $42
"Mastering Python for Data Science" by Madhavan, 2015, Packt, 294 pages, $39
"Learning Data Mining with Python" by Layton, 2015, 369 pages, $43
"Python Data Science Cookbook" by Subramanian, 2015, 347 pages, $48
"Data Science From Scratch" by Grus, 2015, 330 pages, $24
"Learning scikit-learn" by Moncecchi and Garreta, 2013, 118 pages, $28
"Building Machine Learning Systems with Python" by Coelho and Richert, 2015, 305 pages, $49
"Python Machine Learning" by Raschka, 2015, 454 pages, $34

The whittling-down turned out to be harder than expected: Python titles are better than R counterparts, and Madhavan's book alone was easy to dismiss. Subramanian, Moncecchi-Garreta and Julian did not make the cut based on comparison with alternatives, but were not of themselves bad. Grus is the beginner's best bet - beginners can stop reading here - while Bowles is a book which I like a lot, but which may be a bit too specialist. As a reviewer, thinking about what other "intermediate" readers might find useful, I end up pointing to the trio of Raschka, Layton and Coelho-Richert as the books worth choosing from.

I distinguish Raschka, in appreciation of his more pedagogical style - or maybe I am just giving the top spot to the thickest book! - but the other two titles are definitely worth checking out. Compared to Coelho-Richert (CR), Layton's book surveys a wider range of algorithms - a good third of CR's page count is devoted to text analysis, which means less space for everything else - but strangely neglects regression, my own primary interest. (This is why I dock one star). The writing is more "cohesive" and methodical - but while Coelho and Richert know to "liven up" the early chapters with visualizations, Layton does not use "matplotlib" till page 98. (And after that, you see charts in the chapter on graph mining - notably, a topic you don't find in the other two books). Get both, and see which one you prefer.

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