Top-Rated Development Tools for Machine Learning

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5 min readFeb 8, 2019

Machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. This is a developed idea where systems learn from data, find patterns, and make decisions without human intervention. The sole objective is to allow computers to learn automatically without human help and adjust its actions properly. Some of these systems are used in self-driving cars, fraud detection among others.

Tools for Discerning Developers- Popular Developing Tools in Machine Learning

The best soldiers cannot complete their mission successfully without the proper tools and weapons. Similar to data scientists who have their tools and weapons — machine learning software. There are a lot of sources that can adequately cover all your machine learning and artificial intelligence needs. Some of these tools used in machine learning include:

Programming Languages

  1. a) R language is used for visualizations, data analysis, and statistics. The R language and libraries are written to provide many statistical and graphical techniques like time-series analysis, classical statistical tests, clustering, and classification among many others. The language is used to create high-quality plots, these may include mathematical symbols and formulae.
  2. b) Python is a language that is favored for its readability, relatively mild learning curve and functional structure that is used in many cases. This language is beginner friendly and quite simple. To use this language for machine learning, you do not have to be knowledgeable of all the intricacies of it. The Python machine learning is used in the model.

Data Analytics and Visualization Tools

It is an application used in interactive computing. It is a powerful and simple tool that is used to tinker with data analysis problems. This application allows users to write text descriptions, python code and embeds charts and plots directly into an interactive webpage. When using this application, it will enable its users to make and send documents, develop and execute, and present or discuss the results using a live code. It is combined with a number of tools, supports container platforms and extends to over 40 programming languages.

It is a popular library used for retrieving and preparing data to be used later in other machine learning libraries. Pandas enables its users to fetch data from different sources easily. It acts as a tool that simplifies analysis by converting JSON, SQL, TSV or CSV database into a data frame; it makes a python object look like an SPSS table with rows and columns or an Excel sheet.

It is a plotting library for Python 2D. Plotting can be defined as a visualization of machine learning data. It allows its user to generate production-quality visualization with just a few lines of code. Users can draw different kinds of charts and plots for visualizing results. The drawn plots can be easily embedded in Jupyter Notebook. This means that a user can always visualize data and results obtained from your models.

The Best Tools Used in General Machine Learning

  1. An extended package that performs computer numerical using Python. It is the core component of Pandas and Scikit-learn. It supports matrices and multidimensional tables. It offers broadcasting functions that work as a tool for integrating the code of Fortran and C/C++. It supports functionality in the linear algebra, random numbers and Fourier transform. NumPy quickly and easily integrates with a number of databases with the capability to illustrate arbitrary types of data.
  2. Scikit-learn. A machine learning library based on Python open source. It is built on NumPy, SciPy or matplotlib and supports classical supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms: logistic and linear regressions. The collaboration options, qualitative code, performance, simplicity and ample documentation of plain language written to build up on its popularity greatly. It also provides many means for data preprocessing and results in analysis. The machine learning library mainly focuses on classical machine learning algorithms, this makes it limited in supporting Neural Networks, and it is unable to be used in deep learning problems.
  3. NLTK. A developing platform for Python programs and enables them to decrypt the human language. It is recommended for NLP based tasks, such as speech tagging, text processing, and sentiment analysis among others.

Ml Framework for Neural Networking Modeling

  1. TensorFlow is the leading framework for all types of machine learning tasks and research. It is compatible with all devices and operating systems, but it is more into development in the Android operating system. An essential feature of the tool is computing numerical figures and completing them with graphs made up of edges and nodes.
  2. TensorBoard is a tool used for graphical representation of varying aspects and stages of machine learning. It helps users see where model components are located and be able to zoom in on any part of the schema. It also shows model development histograms, metrics, text, audio, and visual data. These are connected correctly as Tensor Board reads Tensor Flow.
  3. PyTorch is an open source machine learning framework; it is built on an idea of the provision of fast and flexible modeling experience. It is used for deep neural networks that accelerate and supports GPU’s. It mainly supports the commonly used language Python.

Revolutionary Data Tools- Essential Open Source Data Tools

  1. Apache Spark is an in-memory data processing engine that distributes cluster-computing framework using open source. Its functionality includes machine learning, ETL, batch processing, data analytics and stream processing of data.
  2. MemSQL is a real-time analytics SQL; in-memory database distribution platform. It takes in and analyzes streaming data and launches queries on petabyte-scale to support applications that work on real-time technology like online games, community storage, and instant messengers among others.

EndNote

From the tools required one has different choices to be able to come up with the best machine learning algorithms suited to his needs. We largely benefit from libraries and comparing machine learning tools by defining their requirements and uses.

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