Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python: Master the complete predictive analytics process, from problem definition to model deployment

This is really educational content. My computer science graduate course used this textbook and the coding and problems in the book teach you alot. The majority of the code ran as written. I suspect there's some version conflicts between my interpreter and the book. There's a few errors/typos in the code, but they have a free downloadable jupyter notebook version that written and runs correctly but you have to go to their site. Learned alot about regression and classification problems, and this book doesn't require loads of math knowledge to get the point. If you have some python experience this book should be rather straightforward and useful.

The real world examples were great and useful. Be aware that previous Python knowledge is required, perhaps a little refresher on Python for Data Science would have made the book more complete.

Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python is a practical manual that will lead you from the basics of analysis to a model deployment. It starts with theroy on the predictive analytics process from the very beggining (problem definition, data collection and preparation, etc.) that more advanced readers migth skip. However, in same Chapter One, theory of Python starts, so if you are a first timer on this tool, it will be very useful.Then, the manual gets better, with EDA, Machine Learning, and Neural Nets becoming the chapters. This is a must read and practice manual for everyone who wants to learn a begginer's lever on Python applied to analytics. Have a great practice time while learning deep Python!

This is a great book to really understand predictive analytics. Unlike other books it is not only a list of algorithms, but a complete guide of all the stages in the process of using predictive analytics to solve problems. Going from problem understanding to deploying a usable neural network model for a final user was really awesome!

Recommended book if you want to understand how to do predictive analytics in practice, I have followed many online resources about predictive modelling, but they never go beyond simple cases. In this book, I learned how to actually deploy a model as a web application. Great examples!

The book wants you yo go to packt.com to download code files, pictures, etc. Then when you go to packt.com you have to sign up for a subscription in order to get the downloads. It's a 7 day free trial but they still want you credit card info. This is bait and switch and it's worst. Selling you a book under false pretenses.

This book was really useful and the code easy to follow. I think it provides a good balance between practice and understanding what is going on with the models.