Book Review: Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On - insideBIGDATA

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a hugely popular area of deep learning, and many data scientists are exploring this AI technology to broaden their skillet to include a number of important problem domains like chatbots, robotics, discrete optimization, web automation and much more. As a result of this wide-spread interest in RL, there are many available educational resources specifically tailored to this class of deep learning – boot camps, training certificates, educational specializations, etc. But if you're a data scientist who has been programming in Python (with object oriented features) for a while, and has some experience with other forms of deep learning using a framework like TensorFlow, then maybe this new book, "Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On," by Maxim Lapan from Packt, might be a great way to kick-start yourself into becoming productive with RL. RL development is being driven by a number of large companies and research groups, including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. RL requires considerable investment in research as the field is growing to enable data scientists to be able to take prescribed methods and apply them to a problem domain.