Section: New Software and Platforms

Scikit-learn

Keywords: Classification - Learning - Clustering - Regession - Medical imaging

Scientific Description

Scikit-learn is a Python module integrating classic machine learning algorithms in the tightly-knit scientific Python world. It aims to provide simple and efficient solutions to learning problems, accessible to everybody and reusable in various contexts: machine-learning as a versatile tool for science and engineering.

Functional Description

Scikit-learn can be used as a middleware for prediction tasks. For example, many web startups adapt Scikitlearn to predict buying behavior of users, provide product recommendations, detect trends or abusive behavior (fraud, spam). Scikit-learn is used to extract the structure of complex data (text, images) and classify such data with techniques relevant to the state of the art.

Easy to use, efficient and accessible to non datascience experts, Scikit-learn is an increasingly popular machine learning library in Python. In a data exploration step, the user can enter a few lines on an interactive (but non-graphical) interface and immediately sees the results of his request. Scikitlearn is a prediction engine . Scikit-learn is developed in open source, and available under the BSD license.

• Participants: Olivier Grisel, Gaël Varoquaux, Bertrand Thirion, Michael Eickenberg, Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort and Fabian Pedregosa Izquierdo

• Partners: CEA - Logilab - Nuxeo - Saint Gobain - Tinyclues - Telecom Paris

• Contact: Olivier Grisel

• URL: http://scikit-learn.org