Nine Ways to Draw a Line (Paperback)
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Paperback. NINE WAYS TO DRAW A LINEThe Classification Algorithms Powering Modern Machine Learning, From Logistic Regression to Deep NetworksHow does a machine decide whether an email is spam, a transaction is fraudulent, a medical image contains a tumor, or a customer is likely to leave?At the heart of many of these decisions lies one deceptively simple idea: drawing a line between things that belong to different categories.NINE WAYS TO DRAW A LINE explores the classification algorithms that form the foundation of modern machine learning. From the mathematical simplicity of logistic regression to the remarkable flexibility of deep neural networks, this book traces how machines learn to separate, distinguish, rank, and classify observations in increasingly sophisticated ways.Rather than presenting machine learning as a collection of disconnected algorithms, the book develops a conceptual journey through nine fundamental approaches to classification. Each method offers a different answer to the same underlying question: Where should we draw the boundary?The journey begins with classical statistical methods and gradually moves toward modern machine learning architectures, revealing how ideas about probability, geometry, optimization, regularization, kernels, ensembles, and representation learning build upon one another.Along the way, readers encounter concepts including: - Logistic regression and probabilistic classification- Linear and nonlinear decision boundaries- Linear and quadratic discriminant analysis- Decision trees and rule-based classification- Support vector machines and maximum-margin learning- Kernel methods and high-dimensional feature spaces- Ensemble methods and boosting- Neural networks and multilayer representations- Deep learning and the emergence of complex decision boundariesThe book emphasizes intuition as much as mathematics. Instead of treating algorithms as black boxes, it asks what each model is actually trying to accomplish, what kind of boundary it creates, why it works, and where it can fail.For readers with a background in economics, finance, statistics, business analytics, engineering, or data science, classification becomes a powerful lens through which to understand contemporary artificial intelligence. Credit scoring, fraud detection, medical diagnosis, customer segmentation, image recognition, recommendation systems, and countless other applications can all be understood as variations of the same fundamental challenge: learning a useful boundary from data.NINE WAYS TO DRAW A LINE is not simply a catalog of algorithms. It is a conceptual map of how classification evolved from relatively simple statistical boundaries into the highly expressive decision surfaces of modern deep learning.Whether you are learning machine learning for the first time, revisiting its mathematical foundations, or seeking a clearer understanding of what happens beneath today's AI systems, this book offers a structured journey through one of the most important ideas in computational intelligence: learning where to draw the line. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Nine Ways to Draw a Line (Paperback)
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NINE WAYS TO DRAW A LINE
The Classification Algorithms Powering Modern Machine Learning, From Logistic Regression to Deep Networks
How does a machine decide whether an email is spam, a transaction is fraudulent, a medical image contains a tumor, or a customer is likely to leave?
At the heart of many of these decisions lies one deceptively simple idea: drawing a line between things that belong to different categories.
NINE WAYS TO DRAW A LINE explores the classification algorithms that form the foundation of modern machine learning. From the mathematical simplicity of logistic regression to the remarkable flexibility of deep neural networks, this book traces how machines learn to separate, distinguish, rank, and classify observations in increasingly sophisticated ways.
Rather than presenting machine learning as a collection of disconnected algorithms, the book develops a conceptual journey through nine fundamental approaches to classification. Each method offers a different answer to the same underlying question: Where should we draw the boundary?
The journey begins with classical statistical methods and gradually moves toward modern machine learning architectures, revealing how ideas about probability, geometry, optimization, regularization, kernels, ensembles, and representation learning build upon one another.
Along the way, readers encounter concepts including:
• Logistic regression and probabilistic classification
• Linear and nonlinear decision boundaries
• Linear and quadratic discriminant analysis
• Decision trees and rule-based classification
• Support vector machines and maximum-margin learning
• Kernel methods and high-dimensional feature spaces
• Ensemble methods and boosting
• Neural networks and multilayer representations
• Deep learning and the emergence of complex decision boundaries
The book emphasizes intuition as much as mathematics. Instead of treating algorithms as black boxes, it asks what each model is actually trying to accomplish, what kind of boundary it creates, why it works, and where it can fail.
For readers with a background in economics, finance, statistics, business analytics, engineering, or data science, classification becomes a powerful lens through which to understand contemporary artificial intelligence. Credit scoring, fraud detection, medical diagnosis, customer segmentation, image recognition, recommendation systems, and countless other applications can all be understood as variations of the same fundamental challenge: learning a useful boundary from data.
NINE WAYS TO DRAW A LINE is not simply a catalog of algorithms. It is a conceptual map of how classification evolved from relatively simple statistical boundaries into the highly expressive decision surfaces of modern deep learning.
Whether you are learning machine learning for the first time, revisiting its mathematical foundations, or seeking a clearer understanding of what happens beneath today's AI systems, this book offers a structured journey through one of the most important ideas in computational intelligence:
learning where to draw the line.
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