Identifying to which category an object belongs to.
Applications: Spam detection, Image recognition. Algorithms:SVM, nearest neighbors, random forest, ...
Predicting a continuous-valued attribute associated with an object.
Applications: Drug response, Stock prices. Algorithms:SVR, ridge regression, Lasso, ...
Automatic grouping of similar objects into sets.
Applications: Customer segmentation, Grouping experiment outcomes Algorithms:k-Means, spectral clustering, mean-shift, ...
Reducing the number of random variables to consider.
Applications: Visualization, Increased efficiency Algorithms:
Comparing, validating and choosing parameters and models.
Goal: Improved accuracy via parameter tuning Modules:
Feature extraction and normalization.
Application: Transforming input data such as text for use with machine learning algorithms. Modules:preprocessing, feature extraction.
News
- On-going development: What's new (changelog)
- November 2015. scikit-learn 0.17.0 is available for download (Changelog).
- March 2015. scikit-learn 0.16.0 is available for download (Changelog).
- July 2014. scikit-learn 0.15.0 is available for download (Changelog).
- July 14-20th, 2014: international sprint. During this week-long sprint, we gathered 18 of the core contributors in Paris. We want to thank our sponsors: Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science & Digicosme and our hosts La Paillasse, Criteo, Inria, and tinyclues.
- August 2013. scikit-learn 0.14 is available for download (Changelog).
Community
- About us See authors
- More Machine Learning Find related projects
- Questions? See FAQ and stackoverflow
- Mailing list: scikit-learn@python.org
- IRC: #scikit-learn @ freenode
Who uses scikit-learn?
"We use scikit-learn to support leading-edge basic research [...]"
"I think it's the most well-designed ML package I've seen so far."
"scikit-learn's ease-of-use, performance and overall variety of algorithms implemented has proved invaluable [...]."
"For these tasks, we relied on the excellent scikit-learn package for Python."
"The great benefit of scikit-learn is its fast learning curve [...]"
"It allows us to do AWesome stuff we would not otherwise accomplish"
"scikit-learn makes doing advanced analysis in Python accessible to anyone."
