In this blog post series, we will use a neural network for predicting restaurant reservations. This first post will describe how we can use a neural network for predicting the number of days between the reservation and the actual visit given a number of visitors.
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Book of the month: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning review
Our rating: ★★★★☆
This book is one of my first Data Science books I bought and one of the books I personally use most often. In this Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning review, I will give you my opinion on this book. Most of the core concepts of Data Science are discussed in this book, ranging from Stochastic Gradient Descent to Neural Networks and are explained in clear and understandable English. Some of the courses I followed were hard to follow, but most of the times, I could look up related material in this book which explained it in simple text with many examples. There are also plenty of exercises to help you through a topic and it builds up nicely. It explains nearly all pattern recognition or machine learning concepts and offers an comprehensive introduction to the fields of computer science, data mining and computer vision. Besides that, it sheds also lights on topics like probability theory in which many probability distributions and graphical models are explained. The great thing is that no previous knowledge of pattern recognition is assumed. So for beginners, advanced undergraduates or first year PhD students, students as well as researchers, researchers and practitioners, this book is an absolutely must-have. For more advanced Data Scientist, this book is great reference material. Make sure to buy this book now and add it to your collection!
Python Deep Learning tutorial: Create a GRU (RNN) in TensorFlow
MLPs (Multi-Layer Perceptrons) are great for many classification and regression tasks. However, it is hard for MLPs to do classification and regression on sequences. In this Python deep learning tutorial, a GRU is implemented in TensorFlow. Tensorflow is one of the many Python Deep Learning libraries.
By the way, another great article on Machine Learning is this article on Machine Learning fraud detection. If you are interested in another article on RNNs, you should definitely read this article on the Elman RNN.
Machine Learning Fraud Detection: A Simple Machine Learning Approach
In this machine learning fraud detection tutorial, I will elaborate how got I started on the Credit Card Fraud Detection competition on Kaggle. The goal of the task is to automatically identify fraudulent credit card transactions using Machine Learning. My Pythonic approach is explained step-by-step.