Hands-On Machine Learning with Microsoft Excel 2019

Wehavemadehugeprogressinteachingcomputerstoperformdifficulttasks,especiallythosethatarerepetitiveandtime-consumingforhumans.Excelusers,ofalllevels,canfeelleftbehindbythisinnovationwave.ThetruthisthatalargeamountoftheworkneededtodevelopanduseamachinelearningmodelcanbedoneinExcel.Thebookstartsbygivingageneralintroductiontomachinelearning,makingeveryconceptclearandunderstandable.Then,itshowseverystepofamachinelearningproject,fromdatacollection,readingfromdifferentdatasources,developingmodels,andvisualizingtheresultsusingExcelfeaturesandofferings.Ineverychapter,thereareseveralexamplesandhands-onexercisesthatwillshowthereaderhowtocombineExcelfunctions,add-ins,andconnectionstodatabasesandtocloudservicestoreachthedesiredgoal:buildingafulldataanalysisflow.Differentmachinelearningmodelsareshown,tailoredtothetypeofdatatobeanalyzed.Attheendofthebook,thereaderispresentedwithsomeadvancedusecasesusingAutomatedMachineLearning,andartificialneuralnetwork,whichsimplifiestheanalysistaskandrepresentsthefutureofmachinelearning.