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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

Constructing a k-nearest neighbors classifier


The k-nearest neighbors is an algorithm that uses k-nearest neighbors in the training dataset to find the category of an unknown object. When we want to find the class to which an unknown point belongs to, we find the k-nearest neighbors and take a majority vote. Let's take a look at how to construct this.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new Python file, and import the following packages:

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import matplotlib.cm as cm
    from sklearn import neighbors, datasets
    
    from utilities import load_data
  2. We will use the data_nn_classifier.txt file for input data. Let's load this input data:

    # Load input data
    input_file = 'data_nn_classifier.txt'
    data = load_data(input_file)
    X, y = data[:,:-1], data[:,-1].astype(np.int)

    The first two columns contain input data and the last column contains the labels. Hence, we separated them into X and y, as shown in the preceding code.

  3. Let's visualize the input data:

    # Plot input data
    plt.figure...