We'll be using the numpy module to convert data to numpy arrays, which is what Scikit-learn wants. We will talk more on preprocessing and cross_validation when we get to them in the code, but preprocessing is the module used to do some cleaning/scaling of data prior to machine learning, and cross_ alidation is used in the testing stages. Finally, we're also importing the LinearRegression algorithm as well as svm from Scikit-learn, which we'll be using as our machine learning algorithms to demonstrate results.

At this point, we've got data that we think is useful. How does the actual machine learning thing work? With supervised learning, you have features and labels. The features are the descriptive attributes, and the label is what you're attempting to predict or forecast. Another common example with regression might be to try to predict the dollar value of an insurance policy premium for someone. The company may collect your age, past driving infractions, public criminal record, and your credit score for example. The company will use past customers, taking this data, and feeding in the amount of the "ideal premium" that they think should have been given to that customer, or they will use the one they actually used if they thought it was a profitable amount.

Thus, for training the machine learning classifier, the features are customer attributes, the label is the premium associated with those attributes.

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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.