What you need for this book

There are no particular mathematical prerequisites; however, to fully understand all the algorithms, it's important to have a basic knowledge of linear algebra, probability theory, and calculus.

All practical examples are written in Python and use the scikit-learn machine learning framework, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Crab, langdetect, Spark, gensim, and TensorFlow (deep learning framework). These are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, with Python 2.7 and 3.3+. When a particular framework is employed for a specific task, detailed instructions and references will be provided.