Machine Learning With Go: Implement Regression, Classification, Clustering, Time-series Models, Neural Networks, and More using the Go Programming Language

by Daniel Whitenack

Key Features Build simple, but powerful, machine learning applications that leverage Go’s standard library along with popular Go packages. Learn the statistics, algorithms, and techniques needed to successfully implement machine learning in Go Understand when and how to integrate certain types of machine learning models in Go applications. Book Description

The mission of this book is to develop readers into productive, innovative data analysts who leverage Go to build robust and valuable applications. To this end, the book will clearly introduce the technical, programming aspects of data analysis in Go, but it will also guide the reader to understand sound machine learning workflows and philosophies for real work analysis scenarios.

Data scientists and analysts are unfortunately known for producing bad, inefficient, and unmaintainable code. This book will address this issue, and will clearly show readers how to be productive with machine learning while also producing application maintaining a high level of integrity. It will also allow readers to overcome the common challenges of integrating analysis and machine learning code within an existing engineering organization.

The reader will take a logical journey to overcome these issues/challenges and create interesting, valuable Go applications. They will begin by exploring the essential philosophies and workflows that must be employed when writing machine learning applications. They will also build on those philosophies with a solid understanding of how to gather, organize, and parse real work data from a variety of sources. The readers will develop a solid statistical toolkit to be able to quick gain intuition about the content of a dataset both numerically and visually. The readers will gain hands on experience implementing essential machine learning techniques (regression, classification, clustering, etc.) with relevant Go packages from the community.

At the end of this journey, the reader will have a solid machine learning mindset and a powerful Go toolkit of techniques, packages, and examples implementations.

What you will learn Design philosophy for data analysis and machine learning. Explore data gathering, organization, parsing, and cleaning. Matrices and linear algebra , Statistics and probability. Learn evaluation and validation of models. Explore Regression, Classification, Clustering. Build model of times series and detect anomaly. Learn about deploying and distributing analyses and models. Understand relevant machine learning algorithms About the Author

Daniel Whitenack (@dwhitena) is a Ph.D. trained data scientist working with Pachyderm (@pachydermIO). Daniel develops innovative, distributed data pipelines which include predictive models, data visualizations, statistical analyses, and more. He has spoken at conferences around the world (ODSC, Spark Summit, Datapalooza, DevFest Siberia, GopherCon, and more), teaches data science/engineering with Ardan Labs (@ardanlabs), maintains the Go kernel for Jupyter, and is actively helping to organize contributions to various open source data science projects.

Genres: Computers

304 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2017

Reviews

[Geoff Teale · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty decent tour of the core concepts of modern machine learning couched in terms of the currently available Go tooling. A fairly easy introduction for those coming to the subject for the first time, but not really a very deep coverage of the topic.

[Ross Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice primer on machine learning concepts in a familiar language.

[Leandro López · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have if you want to learn Machine Learning but aren’t a statistician or have great knowledge of math. Don’t b fooled by the mention of Go in the title, the language it’s irrelevant compared with all the concepts and algorithms the author introduces. Definitely a book that I’d like to have on paper.

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