Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Technology

Description

Designed for programmers with limited machine-learning experience, this hands-on guide builds intuition through working examples rather than extended mathematical theory. Its first part introduces foundational tasks and workflows with Scikit-Learn, including linear regression and the practical steps involved in training and evaluating models. The second turns to deep learning with Keras, TensorFlow 2, and neural networks, showing how increasingly advanced systems can be assembled with production-ready Python tools. Exercises throughout ask readers to apply each chapter’s techniques instead of merely recognizing them. With programming experience as its main prerequisite, the book provides a project-centered route from basic machine-learning concepts to implementing, testing, and improving more complex models.

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Knowledge and truthTechnology and societyWork

About Aurélien Géron

Aurélien Géron is a machine-learning consultant, lecturer, and technical author whose work connects instruction with the demands of building real systems. He previously led YouTube’s video-classification team at Google, and his wider engineering experience spans fields including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and data privacy. That contact with varied production settings informs his central concern: helping capable programmers move from general software development into machine learning. In Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, Géron leads readers through the full working process, from framing problems and preparing data to training, evaluating, and deploying models. His characteristic method favors executable Python, concrete examples, visual explanation, and carefully limited theory. He often begins with familiar technologies or practical questions, establishes an intuitive map of the subject, and only then introduces its mechanisms. The result is technical writing distinguished less by abstraction than by its sustained attention to implementation, judgment, and usable understanding.

Book details

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Language: English
ISBN: 9781098125974

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