Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkit

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Today's book review is, "Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkit" by Tarek Amr.

Who is this book for:
This book is a really quick introduction to using scikit-learn as well as a variety of other packages such as Pandas and Matplotlib. The book is meant to just get the basic ideas and to write some code to implement them. This book would be good for a business analyst who has some basic coding knowledge.

Who is this book not for:
The book itself covers a variety of topics however it lacked details around what should be reviewed beyond the basic implementation of code and the explanations on how things work were too simple. More details around the concepts could make this book a win however it isn't for those serious about data science or machine learning.

While not a deal breaker in itself, the structure of the book seemed a bit odd to me. For example, the chapter on preparing your data came after decision trees and linear model. While decision trees can handle missing values, variable selection methods such as RFE are covered in this chapter. Variable selection is applicable to both decision trees and linear models.

Overall I felt the book had the bones of a good machine learning book however it lacked the meat to make machine learning and scikit-learn really useful.

Rating: 2/5 STARS

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Thanks a lot Dimitri for sharing your honest opinion. I appreciate it so much.

TarekAmr
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Good to hear professional’s opinion. Helps distinguish good books when so many are written on this topic of data science/ML. Keep it up.

muradmagdiyev
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such a honest and unbiased review . Even though author send it to review, You haven't take his side and has provided honest ratings. Can you review Derivative analytics with python by Yves Hilpisch and Python for finance by Yves Hilpisch ?

rajkumarrajpurohit
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Looks like a fair and independent review

investogramma
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Hi,
This probably is the wrong place to ask, but I have a question for you. I am currently about to finish my degree in finance (Bccom) this year from a [business school] and have also taken math classes on the side as option classes for this degree. I was just wondering if you think I should try and finish a Mathematical Finance and Risk Management degree as well [this is offered in the math department]. The reason for this is because if I try and pursue a dual degree, it would take me 1-1.5 years to complete and I would then be a double major, finance and math or just start working because there would be no benefit. Thanks for the feedback.

michaeljjan
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Please direct me to the right books to read on this subject..have you already done a review on this already please pass me the link

tanubindra