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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We’ll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you’ll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms. You’ll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Python Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Extracting learning curves


Learning curves help us understand how the size of our training dataset influences the machine learning model. This is very useful when you have to deal with computational constraints. Let's go ahead and plot the learning curves by varying the size of our training dataset.

How to do it…

  1. Add the following code to the same Python file, as in the previous recipe:

    # Learning curves
    
    from sklearn.learning_curve import learning_curve
    
    classifier = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=7)
    
    parameter_grid = np.array([200, 500, 800, 1100])
    train_sizes, train_scores, validation_scores = learning_curve(classifier, 
            X, y, train_sizes=parameter_grid, cv=5)
    print "\n##### LEARNING CURVES #####"
    print "\nTraining scores:\n", train_scores
    print "\nValidation scores:\n", validation_scores

    We want to evaluate the performance metrics using training datasets of size 200, 500, 800, and 1100. We use five-fold cross-validation, as specified by the cv parameter in the learning_curve...