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    "# Course Notes for Learning Intelligent Systems"
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    "Department of Telematic Engineering Systems, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, © 2016 Carlos A. Iglesias"
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   "source": [
    "## [Introduction to Machine Learning](2_0_0_Intro_ML.ipynb)"
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    "# Table of Contents\n",
    "* [Introduction to scikit-learn](#Introduction-to-scikit-learn)\n",
    "* [What is scikit-learn?](#What-is-scikit-learn?)\n",
    "* [Problems that scikit-learn can solve](#Problems-that-scikit-learn-can-solve)\n",
    "* [Helpers for Machine Learning](#Helpers-for-Machine-Learning)\n",
    "* [How to install scikit-learn](#How-to-install-scikit-learn)\n",
    "* [References](#References)\n"
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   "source": [
    "# Introduction to scikit-learn"
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   "source": [
    "This lecture provides a quick introduction to [scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/), a Python library for machine learning."
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   "source": [
    "## What is scikit-learn?"
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    "Scikit-Learn is a Python library that provides a wealth of machine learning algorithms. \n",
    "\n",
    "The library is built upon SciPy (Scientific Python) that should be installed before using scikit-learn.\n",
    "\n",
    "In particular, scikit-learn uses:\n",
    "* **NumPy**: package for managing n-dimensional arrays (http://www.numpy.org/)\n",
    "* **pandas**: data analysis toolkit (http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/index.html)"
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    "## Problems that scikit-learn can solve"
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    "Scikit-learn provides algorithms for solving the following problems:\n",
    "* **Classification**: Identifying to which category an object belongs to. Some of the available [classification algorithms](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/supervised_learning.html#supervised-learning) are decision trees (ID3, kNN, ...), SVM, Random forest, Perceptron, etc. \n",
    "* **Clustering**: Automatic grouping of similar objects into sets. Some of the available [clustering algorithms](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html#clustering) are k-Means, Affinity propagation, etc.\n",
    "* **Regression**: Predicting a continuous-valued attribute associated with an object. Some of the available [regression algorithms](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/supervised_learning.html#supervised-learning) are linear regression, logistic regression, etc.\n",
    "* ** Dimensionality reduction**: Reducing the number of random variables to consider. Some of the available [dimensionality reduction algorithms](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/decomposition.html#decompositions) are SVD, PCA, etc."
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    "## Helpers for Machine Learning"
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    "In addition, scikit-learn helps in several tasks:\n",
    "* ** Model selection**: Comparing, validating, choosing parameters and models, and persisting models. Some of the [available functionalities](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/model_selection.html#model-selection) are cross-validation or grid search for optimizing the parameters. \n",
    "* ** Preprocessing**: Several common utility functions and transformer classes to change raw feature vectors into a representation that is more suitable for the downstream estimators. Some of the available [preprocessing functions](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/preprocessing.html#preprocessing) are scaling and normalizing data, or imputing missing values."
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   "source": [
    "## How to install scikit-learn"
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    "If you installed the conda distribution, scikit-learn is already installed! This is the best option.\n",
    "\n",
    "In case it is an old installation, you can updated it using conda: `conda update scikit-learn`.\n",
    "\n",
    "If it is not installed, install it with conda: `conda install scikit-learn`.\n",
    "\n",
    "If you have installed scipy and numpy, you can also installed using pip: `pip install -U scikit-learn`.\n",
    "\n",
    "It is not recommended to use pip for installing scipy and numpy. Instead, use conda or install the linux package *python-sklearn*."
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    "## References\n",
    "\n"
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    "* [Scikit-learn site](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html)\n",
    "* [How to install Scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html/)\n",
    "* [An introduction to NumPy and Scipy](http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/numpy.pdf)\n",
    "* [NumPy tutorial](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/user/quickstart.html)"
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    "## Licence\n",
    "The notebook is freely licensed under under the [Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).  \n",
    "\n",
    "© 2016 Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid."
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