front matter

 

foreword

Did you think machine learning is complicated and hard to master? It’s not! Read this book!

Luis Serrano is a wizard when it comes to explaining things in plain English. I met him first when he taught machine learning on Udacity. He made our students feel that all of machine learning is as simple as adding or subtracting numbers. And most of all, he made the material fun. The videos he produced for Udacity were incredibly engaging and remain among the most liked content offered on the platform.

This book is better! Even the most fearful will enjoy the material presented herein, as Serrano demystifies some of the best-held secrets of the machine learning society. He takes you step by step through each of the critical algorithms and techniques in the field. You can become a machine learning aficionado even if you dislike math. Serrano minimizes the mathematical kauderwelsch that so many of us hard-core academics have come to love, and instead relies on intuition and practical explanations.

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

Types of chapters

Recommended learning paths

Appendices

Requirements and learning goals

Other resources

We’ll be writing code

about the author