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Identifying to which category an object belongs to.
Applications: Spam detection, Image recognition.
Algorithms:
Predicting a continuous-valued attribute associated with an object.
Automatic grouping of similar objects into sets.
Applications: Customer segmentation, Grouping experiment outcomes
Algorithms:
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)
- Scikit-learn from 0.21 requires Python 3.5 or greater.
- July 2019. scikit-learn 0.21.3 (Changelog) and 0.20.4 (Changelog) are available for download.
- May 2019. scikit-learn 0.21.0 to 0.21.2 are available for download (Changelog).
- March 2019. scikit-learn 0.20.3 is available for download (Changelog).
- September 2018. scikit-learn 0.20.0 is available for download (Changelog).
- July 2018. scikit-learn 0.19.2 is available for download (Changelog).
- July 2017. scikit-learn 0.19.0 is available for download (Changelog).
Community
- About us See authors and contributing
- 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."
