Algorithms For Dummies

 

   

  PART 1 

 Getting Started

Downloading the Datasets  

and Example Code

This book is about using Python to perform machine learning tasks. Of course, you 

can spend all your time creating the example code from scratch, debugging it, and 

only then discovering how it relates to machine learning, or you can take the easy 

way and download the prewritten code from the Dummies site (see the Introduc-

tion of this book for details) so that you can get right to work. Likewise, creating 

datasets large enough for algorithm learning purposes would take quite a while. 

Fortunately, you can access standardized, precreated data sets quite easily by 

using features provided in some of the data science packages (which also work 

just fine for all sorts of purposes, including learning to work with algorithms). 

The following sections help you download and use the example code and datasets 

so that you can save time and get right to work with algorithm-specific tasks.