Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python
Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python, available at $24.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 60 lectures, based on 5045 reviews, and has 28706 subscribers.
You will learn about Understand the regular K-Means algorithm Understand and enumerate the disadvantages of K-Means Clustering Understand the soft or fuzzy K-Means Clustering algorithm Implement Soft K-Means Clustering in Code Understand Hierarchical Clustering Explain algorithmically how Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering works Apply Scipy's Hierarchical Clustering library to data Understand how to read a dendrogram Understand the different distance metrics used in clustering Understand the difference between single linkage, complete linkage, Ward linkage, and UPGMA Understand the Gaussian mixture model and how to use it for density estimation Write a GMM in Python code Explain when GMM is equivalent to K-Means Clustering Explain the expectation-maximization algorithm Understand how GMM overcomes some disadvantages of K-Means Understand the Singular Covariance problem and how to fix it This course is ideal for individuals who are Students and professionals interested in machine learning and data science or People who want an introduction to unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis or People who want to know how to write their own clustering code or Professionals interested in data mining big data sets to look for patterns automatically It is particularly useful for Students and professionals interested in machine learning and data science or People who want an introduction to unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis or People who want to know how to write their own clustering code or Professionals interested in data mining big data sets to look for patterns automatically.
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Summary
Title: Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning in Python
Price: $24.99
Average Rating: 4.7
Number of Lectures: 60
Number of Published Lectures: 57
Number of Curriculum Items: 60
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 57
Original Price: $24.99
Quality Status: approved
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What You Will Learn
- Understand the regular K-Means algorithm
- Understand and enumerate the disadvantages of K-Means Clustering
- Understand the soft or fuzzy K-Means Clustering algorithm
- Implement Soft K-Means Clustering in Code
- Understand Hierarchical Clustering
- Explain algorithmically how Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering works
- Apply Scipy's Hierarchical Clustering library to data
- Understand how to read a dendrogram
- Understand the different distance metrics used in clustering
- Understand the difference between single linkage, complete linkage, Ward linkage, and UPGMA
- Understand the Gaussian mixture model and how to use it for density estimation
- Write a GMM in Python code
- Explain when GMM is equivalent to K-Means Clustering
- Explain the expectation-maximization algorithm
- Understand how GMM overcomes some disadvantages of K-Means
- Understand the Singular Covariance problem and how to fix it
Who Should Attend
- Students and professionals interested in machine learning and data science
- People who want an introduction to unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis
- People who want to know how to write their own clustering code
- Professionals interested in data mining big data sets to look for patterns automatically
Target Audiences
- Students and professionals interested in machine learning and data science
- People who want an introduction to unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis
- People who want to know how to write their own clustering code
- Professionals interested in data mining big data sets to look for patterns automatically
Cluster analysis is a staple of unsupervised machine learning and data science.
It is very useful for data mining and big data because it automatically finds patterns in the data, without the need for labels, unlike supervised machine learning.
In a real-world environment, you can imagine that a robot or an artificial intelligence won’t always have access to the optimal answer, or maybe there isn’t an optimal correct answer. You’d want that robot to be able to explore the world on its own, and learn things just by looking for patterns.
Do you ever wonder how we get the data that we use in our supervised machine learning algorithms?
We always seem to have a nice CSV or a table, complete with Xs and corresponding Ys.
If you haven’t been involved in acquiring data yourself, you might not have thought about this, but someone has to make this data!
Those “Y”s have to come from somewhere, and a lot of the time that involves manual labor.
Sometimes, you don’t have access to this kind of information or it is infeasible or costly to acquire.
But you still want to have some idea of the structure of the data. If you’re doing data analytics automating pattern recognition in your data would be invaluable.
This is where unsupervised machine learning comes into play.
In this course we are first going to talk about clustering. This is where instead of training on labels, we try to create our own labels! We’ll do this by grouping together data that looks alike.
There are 2 methods of clustering we’ll talk about: k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering.
Next, because in machine learning we like to talk about probability distributions, we’ll go into Gaussian mixture models and kernel density estimation, where we talk about how to “learn” the probability distribution of a set of data.
One interesting fact is that under certain conditions, Gaussian mixture models and k-means clustering are exactly the same! We’ll prove how this is the case.
All the algorithms we’ll talk about in this course are staples in machine learning and data science, so if you want to know how to automatically find patterns in your data with data mining and pattern extraction, without needing someone to put in manual work to label that data, then this course is for you.
All the materials for this course are FREE. You can download and install Python, Numpy, and Scipy with simple commands on Windows, Linux, or Mac.
This course focuses on “how to build and understand“, not just “how to use”. Anyone can learn to use an API in 15 minutes after reading some documentation. It’s not about “remembering facts”, it’s about “seeing for yourself” via experimentation. It will teach you how to visualize what’s happening in the model internally. If you want more than just a superficial look at machine learning models, this course is for you.
“If you can’t implement it, you don’t understand it”
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Or as the great physicist Richard Feynman said: “What I cannot create, I do not understand”.
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My courses are the ONLY courses where you will learn how to implement machine learning algorithms from scratch
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Other courses will teach you how to plug in your data into a library, but do you really need help with 3 lines of code?
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After doing the same thing with 10 datasets, you realize you didn’t learn 10 things. You learned 1 thing, and just repeated the same 3 lines of code 10 times…
Suggested Prerequisites:
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matrix addition, multiplication
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probability
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Python coding: if/else, loops, lists, dicts, sets
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Numpy coding: matrix and vector operations, loading a CSV file
WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR COURSES IN?:
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Check out the lecture “Machine Learning and AI Prerequisite Roadmap” (available in the FAQ of any of my courses, including the free Numpy course)
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction to Unsupervised Learning
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Course Outline
Lecture 3: What is unsupervised learning used for?
Lecture 4: Why Use Clustering?
Lecture 5: Where to get the code
Lecture 6: How to Succeed in this Course
Chapter 2: K-Means Clustering
Lecture 1: An Easy Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Lecture 2: Hard K-Means: Exercise Prompt 1
Lecture 3: Hard K-Means: Exercise 1 Solution
Lecture 4: Hard K-Means: Exercise Prompt 2
Lecture 5: Hard K-Means: Exercise 2 Solution
Lecture 6: Hard K-Means: Exercise Prompt 3
Lecture 7: Hard K-Means: Exercise 3 Solution
Lecture 8: Hard K-Means Objective: Theory
Lecture 9: Hard K-Means Objective: Code
Lecture 10: Soft K-Means
Lecture 11: The Soft K-Means Objective Function
Lecture 12: Soft K-Means in Python Code
Lecture 13: How to Pace Yourself
Lecture 14: Visualizing Each Step of K-Means
Lecture 15: Examples of where K-Means can fail
Lecture 16: Disadvantages of K-Means Clustering
Lecture 17: How to Evaluate a Clustering (Purity, Davies-Bouldin Index)
Lecture 18: Using K-Means on Real Data: MNIST
Lecture 19: One Way to Choose K
Lecture 20: K-Means Application: Finding Clusters of Related Words
Lecture 21: Clustering for NLP and Computer Vision: Real-World Applications
Lecture 22: Suggestion Box
Chapter 3: Hierarchical Clustering
Lecture 1: Visual Walkthrough of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering
Lecture 2: Agglomerative Clustering Options
Lecture 3: Using Hierarchical Clustering in Python and Interpreting the Dendrogram
Lecture 4: Application: Evolution
Lecture 5: Application: Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Tweets
Chapter 4: Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs)
Lecture 1: Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) Algorithm
Lecture 2: Write a Gaussian Mixture Model in Python Code
Lecture 3: Practical Issues with GMM / Singular Covariance
Lecture 4: Comparison between GMM and K-Means
Lecture 5: Kernel Density Estimation
Lecture 6: GMM vs Bayes Classifier (pt 1)
Lecture 7: GMM vs Bayes Classifier (pt 2)
Lecture 8: Expectation-Maximization (pt 1)
Lecture 9: Expectation-Maximization (pt 2)
Lecture 10: Expectation-Maximization (pt 3)
Lecture 11: Future Unsupervised Learning Algorithms You Will Learn
Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Environment (FAQ by Student Request)
Lecture 1: Pre-Installation Check
Lecture 2: Anaconda Environment Setup
Lecture 3: How to install Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Pandas, IPython, Theano, and TensorFlow
Chapter 6: Extra Help With Python Coding for Beginners (FAQ by Student Request)
Lecture 1: How to Code by Yourself (part 1)
Lecture 2: How to Code by Yourself (part 2)
Lecture 3: Proof that using Jupyter Notebook is the same as not using it
Lecture 4: Python 2 vs Python 3
Chapter 7: Effective Learning Strategies for Machine Learning (FAQ by Student Request)
Lecture 1: How to Succeed in this Course (Long Version)
Lecture 2: Is this for Beginners or Experts? Academic or Practical? Fast or slow-paced?
Lecture 3: Machine Learning and AI Prerequisite Roadmap (pt 1)
Lecture 4: Machine Learning and AI Prerequisite Roadmap (pt 2)
Chapter 8: Appendix / FAQ Finale
Lecture 1: What is the Appendix?
Lecture 2: BONUS
Instructors
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Lazy Programmer Team
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Lazy Programmer Inc.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer
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