Python for Machine-Learning Part 1: Introduction

In this new series, Darren Yates dives into the Python programming language and how to use it in machine-learning and data-mining applications.

Look at almost any survey searching for the world’s most popular programming language and more often than not, it’s Python that takes the cake. It’s one of the easiest languages to learn and taught to school kids around the world. It runs on almost any computing device, from your PC to your Android phone and even microcontroller boards like the BBC micro:bit (which I highly recommend, by the way). Plus, Python is modular, meaning you can add in new functions at-will through a vast set of plug-ins or ‘libraries’ for a wide range of applications – or even code your own. One of the most popular applications for Python is machine-learning and over the course of this new series, we’ll work through the Python language, with particular reference to machine-learning…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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