Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

3 Day Course with 1 Hour Webex Follow up

Course Description

Starting with the basics, Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python explains various techniques that you can apply to your data using the powerful Python libraries so that your unlabeled data reveals solutions to all your business questions

Overview

Unsupervised learning is a useful and practical solution in situations where labeled data is not available.

Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python guides you on the best practices for using unsupervised learning techniques in tandem with Python libraries and extracting meaningful information from unstructured data. The course begins by explaining how basic clustering works to find similar data points in a set. Once you are well versed with the k-means algorithm and how it operates, you’ll learn what dimensionality reduction is and where to apply it. As you progress, you’ll learn various neural network techniques and how they can improve your model. While studying the applications of unsupervised learning, you will also understand how to mine topics that are trending on Twitter and Facebook and build a news recommendation engine for users. You will complete the course by challenging yourself through various interesting activities such as performing a Market Basket Analysis and identifying relationships between different merchandises.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills you need to confidently build your own models using Python.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the basics and importance of clustering

• Build k-means, hierarchical, and DBSCAN clustering algorithms from scratch with built-in packages

• Explore dimensionality reduction and its applications

• Use scikit-learn (sklearn) to implement and analyse principal component analysis (PCA)on the Iris dataset

• Employ Keras to build autoencoder models for the CIFAR-10 dataset

• Apply the Apriori algorithm with machine learning extensions (Mlxtend) to study transaction data

Scope

This course is beneficial for individuals having prior programming knowledge Python. Basic knowledge of mathematical concepts, including exponents, square roots, means, and medians is expected.

Target Audience

This course is designed for developers, data scientists, and machine learning enthusiasts who are interested in unsupervised learning. Some familiarity with Python programming along with basic knowledge of mathematical concepts including exponents, square roots, means, and medians will be beneficial.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to Clustering

• Introduction

• Unsupervised Learning versus Supervised Learning

• Clustering

• Introduction to k-means Clustering

Lesson 2: Hierarchical Clustering

• Introduction

• Clustering Refresher

• The Organization of Hierarchy

• Introduction to Hierarchical Clustering

• Linkage

• Agglomerative versus Divisive Clustering

• k-means versus Hierarchical Clustering

Lesson 3: Neighborhood Approaches and DBSCAN

• Introduction

• Introduction to DBSCAN

• DBSCAN Versus k-means and Hierarchical Clustering

Lesson 4: Dimension Reduction and PCA

• Introduction

• Overview of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques

• PCA

Lesson 5: Autoencoders

• Introduction

• Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks

• Autoencoders

Lesson 6: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE)

• Introduction

• Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (SNE)

• Interpreting t-SNE Plots

Lesson 7: Topic Modeling

• Introduction

• Cleaning Text Data

• Latent Dirichlet Allocation

• Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Lesson 8: Market Basket Analysis

• Introduction

• Market Basket Analysis

• Characteristics of Transaction Data

• Apriori Algorithm

• Association Rules

Lesson 9: Hotspot Analysis

• Introduction

• Kernel Density Estimation

• Hotspot Analysis

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• Detailed course work book to take away

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• Certificate of completion

• Unlimited Refreshments

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Our list of Data Science Courses

• Applied Data Science with Python & Jupyter

• Applied Data Visualization with R and ggplot2

• Artificial Intelligence with Big Data

• Big Data Analysing with Python

• Big Data Processing with Apache Spark

• Data Science for Marketing Analytics

• Data Science Projects with Python

• Data Virtualisation with Python

• Data Wrangling with Python

• Excel – Introduction

• Excel – Advanced

• Excel for Data Analysis with Power Pivot

• Excel – Forecasting Data

• Excel – Sparkline and Mapping Data

• Excel – Visualising Data with Charts

• Excel - Dashboards

• Excel VBA Programming

• Access VBA

• VBA Programming

• Microsoft Power BI Data Analysis Professional

• Microsoft Power BI Data Analysis Practitioner

• Scala and Spark with Big Data Analytics

• Python Programming Introduction

• Python Advanced Programming

• Python API Development

• Python Microservices Development

• Machine Learning with Python

• Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python Libraries

• SQL for Data Analytics

• SQL Query Fundamentals

• Tableau Introduction

• Tableau Advanced

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We accept name changes up to 3 days before the event at no additional cost , if you are unable to attend.

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