New Book: Intuitive Machine Learning

Vincent Granville
1 min readSep 23, 2022

This 156 pages eBook covers the foundations of machine learning, with modern approaches to solving complex problems. Emphasis is on scalability, automation, testing, optimizing, and interpretability (explainable AI). For instance, regression techniques — including logistic and Lasso — are presented as a single method, without using advanced linear algebra. There is no need to learn 50 versions when one does it all and more. Confidence regions and prediction intervals are built using parametric bootstrap, without statistical models or probability distributions. Models (including generative models and mixtures) are mostly used to create rich synthetic data to test and benchmark various methods.

Supervised classification (top) and unsupervised clustering (bottom)

The style is very compact, getting down to the point quickly, and suitable to business professionals eager to learn a lot of useful material in a limited amount of time. Jargon and arcane theories are absent, replaced by simple English to facilitate the reading by non-experts, and to help you discover topics usually made inaccessible to beginners.

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Vincent Granville

Founder, MLtechniques.com. Machine learning scientist. Co-founder of Data Science Central (acquired by Tech Target).