Gain a working knowledge of prescriptive AI, its history, and its current and future trends. This book will help you evaluate different AI-driven predictive analytics techniques and help you incorporate decision intelligence into your business workflow through real-world examples. The book kicks off with an introduction to decision intelligence and provides insight into prescriptive AI and how it can be woven into various business strategies and frameworks. You'll then be introduced to different decision intelligence methodologies and how to implement them, along with advantages and limitations of each. Digging deeper, the authors then walk you through how to perform simulations and interpret the results. A full chapter is devoted to embedding decision intelligence processes and outcomes into your business workflow using various applications. The book concludes by exploring different cognitive biases humans are prone to, and how those biases can be eliminated by combining machine and human intelligence. Upon completing this book, you will understand prescriptive AI, tools, and techniques and will be ready to incorporate them into your business workflow. What You Will Learn Implement full-fledged decision intelligence applications using Python Leverage the tools, techniques, and methodologies for prescriptive AI Understand how prescriptive AI can be used in different domains through practical examples Interpret results and integrate them into your decision making Who This Book Is ForData Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, as well as business professionals who want to understand how AI-driven decision intelligence can help grow their business.

Focus on implementing end-to-end projects using Python and leverage state-of-the-art algorithms. This book teaches you to efficiently use a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) packages to: implement text classification, identify parts of speech, utilize topic modeling, text summarization, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, and many more applications of NLP. The book begins with text data collection, web scraping, and the different types of data sources. It explains how to clean and pre-process text data, and offers ways to analyze data with advanced algorithms. You then explore semantic and syntactic analysis of the text. Complex NLP solutions that involve text normalization are covered along with advanced pre-processing methods, POS tagging, parsing, text summarization, sentiment analysis, word2vec, seq2seq, and much more. The book presents the fundamentals necessary for applications of machine learning and deep learning in NLP. This second edition goes over advanced techniques to convert text to features such as Glove, Elmo, Bert, etc. It also includes an understanding of how transformers work, taking sentence BERT and GPT as examples. The final chapters explain advanced industrial applications of NLP with solution implementation and leveraging the power of deep learning techniques for NLP problems. It also employs state-of-the-art advanced RNNs, such as long short-term memory, to solve complex text generation tasks. After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of the challenges faced by different industries and you will have worked on multiple examples of implementing NLP in the real world. What You Will Learn Know the core concepts of implementing NLP and various approaches to natural language processing (NLP), including NLP using Python libraries such as NLTK, textblob, SpaCy, Standford CoreNLP, and more Implement text pre-processing and feature engineering in NLP, including advanced methods of feature engineering Understand and implement the concepts of information retrieval, text summarization, sentiment analysis, text classification, and other advanced NLP techniques leveraging machine learning and deep learning Who This Book Is For Data scientists who want to refresh and learn various concepts of natural language processing (NLP) through coding exercises

Design and develop end-to-end, production-grade computer vision projects for real-world industry problems. This book discusses computer vision algorithms and their applications using PyTorch. The book begins with the fundamentals of computer vision: convolutional neural nets, RESNET, YOLO, data augmentation, and other regularization techniques used in the industry. And then it gives you a quick overview of the PyTorch libraries used in the book. After that, it takes you through the implementation of image classification problems, object detection techniques, and transfer learning while training and running inference. The book covers image segmentation and an anomaly detection model. And it discusses the fundamentals of video processing for computer vision tasks putting images into videos. The book concludes with an explanation of the complete model building process for deep learning frameworks using optimized techniques with highlights on model AI explainability. After reading this book, you will be able to build your own computer vision projects using transfer learning and PyTorch. What You Will Learn Solve problems in computer vision with PyTorch. Implement transfer learning and perform image classification, object detection, image segmentation, and other computer vision applications Design and develop production-grade computer vision projects for real-world industry problems Interpret computer vision models and solve business problems Who This Book Is For Data scientists and machine learning engineers interested in building computer vision projects and solving business problems

Leverage machine learning and deep learning techniques to build fully-fledged natural language processing (NLP) projects. Projects throughout this book grow in complexity and showcase methodologies, optimizing tips, and tricks to solve various business problems. You will use modern Python libraries and algorithms to build end-to-end NLP projects. The book starts with an overview of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence to provide a quick refresher on algorithms. Next, it covers end-to-end NLP projects beginning with traditional algorithms and projects such as customer review sentiment and emotion detection, topic modeling, and document clustering. From there, it delves into e-commerce related projects such as product categorization using the description of the product, a search engine to retrieve the relevant content, and a content-based recommendation system to enhance user experience. Moving forward, it explains how to build systems to find similar sentences using contextual embedding, summarizing huge documents using recurrent neural networks (RNN), automatic word suggestion using long short-term memory networks (LSTM), and how to build a chatbot using transfer learning. It concludes with an exploration of next-generation AI and algorithms in the research space. By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge needed to solve various business problems using NLP techniques. What You Will Learn Implement full-fledged intelligent NLP applications with Python Translate real-world business problem on text data with NLP techniques Leverage machine learning and deep learning techniques to perform smart language processing Gain hands-on experience implementing end-to-end search engine information retrieval, text summarization, chatbots, text generation, document clustering and product classification, and more Who This Book Is For Data scientists, machine learning engineers, and deep learning professionals looking to build natural language applications using Python