Getting Started in Machine Learning: Easy Recipes for Python 3, Scikit-Learn, and Jupyter

This is an introductory book in machine learning with a hands on approach. It uses Python 3 and Jupyter notebooks for all applications. The emphasis is primarily on learning to use existing libraries such as Scikit-Learn with easy recipes and existing data files that can found on-line. Topics include linear, multilinear, polynomial, stepwise, lasso, ridge, and logistic regression; ROC curves and measures of binary classification; nonlinear regression (including an introduction to gradient d...