In the previous Machine Learning with Python tutorial we finished up making a forecast of stock prices using regression, and then visualizing the forecast with Matplotlib. In this tutorial, we'll talk about some next steps.

I remember the first time that I was trying to learn about machine learning, and most examples were only covering up to the training and testing part, totally skipping the prediction part. Of the tutorials that did the training, testing, and predicting part, I did not find a single one that explained saving the algorithm. With examples, data is generally pretty small overall, so the training, testing, and prediction process is relatively fast. In the real world, however, data is likely to be larger, and take much longer for processing. Since no one really talked about this important stage, I wanted to definitely include some information on processing time and saving your algorithm.

While our machine learning classifier takes a few seconds to train, there may be cases where it takes hours or even days to train a classifier. Imagine needing to do that every day you wanted to forecast prices, or whatever. This is not necessary, as we can just save the classifier using the Pickle module.

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1. Introduction to Machine Learning
2. Regression Intro
3. Regression Features and Labels
4. Regression Training and Testing
5. Regression forecasting and predicting
6. Pickling and Scaling
7. Regression How it Works
8. How to program the Best Fit Slope
9. How to program the Best Fit Line
10. R Squared Theory
11. Programming R Squared
12. Testing Assumptions
13. Classification w/ K Nearest Neighbors Intro
14. K Nearest Neighbors Application
15. Euclidean Distance
16. Creating Our K Nearest Neighbors A
17. Writing our own K Nearest Neighbors in Code
18. Applying our K Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
19. Final thoughts on K Nearest Neighbors
20. Support Vector Machine Intro and Application
21. Understanding Vectors
22. Support Vector Assertion
23. Support Vector Machine Fundamentals
24. Support Vector Machine Optimization
25. Creating an SVM from scratch
26. SVM Training
27. SVM Optimization
28. Completing SVM from Scratch
29. Kernels Introduction
30. Why Kernels
31. Soft Margin SVM
32. Soft Margin SVM and Kernels with CVXOPT
33. SVM Parameters
34. Clustering Introduction
35. Handling Non-Numeric Data
36. K Means with Titanic Dataset
37. Custom K Means
38. K Means from Scratch
39. Mean Shift Intro
40. Mean Shift with Titanic Dataset
41. Mean Shift from Scratch
42. Mean Shift Dynamic Bandwidth

The objective of this course is to give you a holistic understanding of machine learning, covering theory, application, and inner workings of supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning algorithms.

In this series, we'll be covering linear regression, K Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines (SVM), flat clustering, hierarchical clustering, and neural networks.