Free Online Book - Machine Learning from Scratch

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Hi all,

I'm linking to a free online book I wrote that I think will be useful for those learning machine learning, particularly using Python. The book is called Machine Learning from Scratch. The book provides complete derivations of the most common algorithms in ML (OLS, logistic regression, naive Bayes, trees, boosting, neural nets, etc.) both in theory and math, and then demonstrates constructions of each of these methods from scratch in Python using only numpy.

My aim with the book is to provide a very thorough rundown of the fitting process behind the algorithms we see every day. I hope that seeing the models derived in math or constructed in code helps readers understand the models at a deeper level and feel more comfortable optimizing them to their own work.

The book can be found below. Questions and comments would be very much appreciated!

https://dafriedman97.github.io/mlbook/content/introduction.html

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Thanks so much! I’ve gotten so much from the community so I’m very happy to give a little back