Machine learning in Python : essential techniques for predictive analysis / Michael Bowles.

The Two Essential Algorithms for Making Predictions -- Understand the Problem by Understanding the Data -- Predictive Model Building: Balancing Performance, Complexity, and Big Data -- Penalized Linear Regression -- Building Predictive Models Using Penalized Linear Methods -- Ensemble Methods -- Building Ensemble Models with Python.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 13, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.