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Data Cleaning and Exploration with Machine Learning

By : Michael Walker
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Data Cleaning and Exploration with Machine Learning

By: Michael Walker

Overview of this book

Many individuals who know how to run machine learning algorithms do not have a good sense of the statistical assumptions they make and how to match the properties of the data to the algorithm for the best results. As you start with this book, models are carefully chosen to help you grasp the underlying data, including in-feature importance and correlation, and the distribution of features and targets. The first two parts of the book introduce you to techniques for preparing data for ML algorithms, without being bashful about using some ML techniques for data cleaning, including anomaly detection and feature selection. The book then helps you apply that knowledge to a wide variety of ML tasks. You’ll gain an understanding of popular supervised and unsupervised algorithms, how to prepare data for them, and how to evaluate them. Next, you’ll build models and understand the relationships in your data, as well as perform cleaning and exploration tasks with that data. You’ll make quick progress in studying the distribution of variables, identifying anomalies, and examining bivariate relationships, as you focus more on the accuracy of predictions in this book. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to deal with complex data problems using unsupervised ML algorithms like principal component analysis and k-means clustering.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Data Cleaning and Machine Learning Algorithms
5
Section 2 – Preprocessing, Feature Selection, and Sampling
9
Section 3 – Modeling Continuous Targets with Supervised Learning
13
Section 4 – Modeling Dichotomous and Multiclass Targets with Supervised Learning
19
Section 5 – Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction with Unsupervised Learning

KNN for multiclass classification

Constructing a KNN multiclass model is quite straightforward since it involves no special extensions to the algorithm, such as those needed to adapt logistic regression to targets with more than two values. We can see this by working with the same machine failure data that we worked with in the Multinomial logistic regression section of Chapter 10, Logistic Regression.

Note

This dataset on machine failure is available for public use at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shivamb/machine-predictive-maintenance-classification. There are 10,000 observations, 12 features, and two possible targets. One is binary and specifies whether the machine failed or did not. The other contains types of failure. The instances in this dataset are synthetic, generated by a process designed to mimic machine failure rates and causes.

Let’s build our machine failure type model:

  1. First, let’s load the now-familiar modules:
    import pandas as pd...