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Beginner Business Analytics Cheatsheet Infographics Machine Learning Python R

Introduction

In his famous book – Think and Grow Rich, Napolean Hill narrates story of Darby, who after digging for a gold vein for a few years walks away from it when he was three feet away from it.

Now, I don’t know whether the story is true or false. But, I surely know of a few Data Darby around me. These people understand the purpose of machine learning, its execution and use just a set 2 – 3 algorithms on whatever problem they are working on. They don’t update themselves with better algorithms or techniques, because they are too tough or they are time consuming.

Like Darby, they are surely missing from a lot of action after reaching this close! In the end, they give up on machine learning by saying it is very computation heavy or it is very difficult or I can’t improve my models above a threshold – what’s the point? Have you heard them?

Today’s cheat sheet aims to change a few Data Darby’s to machine learning advocates. Here’s a collection of 10 most commonly used machine learning algorithms with their codes in Python and R. Considering the rising usage of machine learning in building models, this cheat sheet is good to act as a code guide to help you bring these machine learning algorithms to use. Good Luck!

For the super lazy Data Darbies, we will make your life even easier. You can download the PDF Version of the cheat sheet here and copy paste the codes from it directly.

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Keep this cheat sheet handy when you work on data sets. download the complete cheat sheet here: PDF Version

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34 thoughts on "Cheatsheet – Python & R codes for common Machine Learning Algorithms"

venugopal
venugopal says: September 15, 2015 at 4:37 am
Good Compilation... Reply
Indu
Indu says: September 15, 2015 at 2:11 pm
Thanks for sharing this in both R and Python. Very helpful. It would be nice to have datasets to accompany this code for those who are just starting out.... Reply
Huaixiu Zheng
Huaixiu Zheng says: September 17, 2015 at 4:27 pm
thanks for sharing Reply
Richard Boire
Richard Boire says: September 17, 2015 at 7:55 pm
This is good stuff. My only commentary is the following: I could not find anything in the code that deals with validation. This is a must in all models and their evaluation(i.e. how well the model performs in a holdout group). Evaluating the model based on its predicted output to observed output in the training data can be misleading because certain techniques have a tendency to overfit(i.e. neural nets) where holdout groups are essential in effectively evaluating model performance . Reply
Kayla
Kayla says: September 18, 2015 at 1:08 pm
Awesome! Thank you! Reply
greg
greg says: September 21, 2015 at 2:49 pm
thanks Reply
andun
andun says: September 23, 2015 at 1:14 am
For kNN in R, the package knn is no longer available. The function knn can be found in the "class" package, but I don't think it takes the arguments the way you specified. I guess you can also use caret for that. Reply
Gaurav
Gaurav says: September 24, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Thx for sharing. In R we can implement stepwise regression.whats the equivalent in python. Reply
Raman
Raman says: October 12, 2015 at 3:42 am
Very thoughtfully compiled and presented. Thanks for posting something very useful! Reply
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Jared says: November 13, 2015 at 3:32 pm
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Analytics Vidhya Content Team says: November 14, 2015 at 4:18 am
I've shared this PDF on your email. Reply
venugopal
venugopal says: November 28, 2015 at 6:51 am
GooD one. Please share PDF file to my mail as well Reply
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Shikhar Pandey says: November 29, 2015 at 10:58 am
Please share the PDF with me Reply
Analytics Vidhya Content Team
Analytics Vidhya Content Team says: November 30, 2015 at 6:05 am
Hi Venugopal Link to download is shared in the post above. You can very well download using the link. Thanks Reply
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socialin says: December 28, 2015 at 1:31 am
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Manoj says: August 26, 2016 at 10:31 am
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Prateek Tandon
Prateek Tandon says: October 25, 2016 at 5:28 pm
Good work. For code snippets though, using gists is more friendly to make updates as per updates to libraries etc. Reply
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Harsh
Harsh says: January 04, 2017 at 10:48 am
Excellent piece of information. Posting both R and Python code is helpful in choosing which one to use for ML. Cheers! and Keep up the good work! Reply

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