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The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

By : Anthony So, Thomas V. Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare
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Book Image

The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

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By: Anthony So, Thomas V. Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare

Overview of this book

Where there’s data, there’s insight. With so much data being generated, there is immense scope to extract meaningful information that’ll boost business productivity and profitability. By learning to convert raw data into game-changing insights, you’ll open new career paths and opportunities. The Data Science Workshop begins by introducing different types of projects and showing you how to incorporate machine learning algorithms in them. You’ll learn to select a relevant metric and even assess the performance of your model. To tune the hyperparameters of an algorithm and improve its accuracy, you’ll get hands-on with approaches such as grid search and random search. Next, you’ll learn dimensionality reduction techniques to easily handle many variables at once, before exploring how to use model ensembling techniques and create new features to enhance model performance. In a bid to help you automatically create new features that improve your model, the book demonstrates how to use the automated feature engineering tool. You’ll also understand how to use the orchestration and scheduling workflow to deploy machine learning models in batch. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to start working on data science projects confidently. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills to start working on data science projects confidently.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
12
12. Feature Engineering

The Confusion Matrix

You encountered the confusion matrix in Chapter 3, Binary Classification. You may recall that the confusion matrix compares the number of classes that the model predicted against the actual occurrences of those classes in the validation dataset. The output is a square matrix that has the number of rows and columns equal to the number of classes you are predicting. The columns represent the actual values, while the rows represent the predictions. You get a confusion matrix by using confusion_matrix from sklearn.metrics.

Exercise 6.06: Generating a Confusion Matrix for the Classification Model

The goal of this exercise is to create a confusion matrix for the classification model you trained in Exercise 6.05, Creating a Classification Model for Computing Evaluation Metrics.

Note

You should continue this exercise in the same notebook as that used in Exercise 6.05, Creating a Classification Model for Computing Evaluation Metrics. If you wish to use a new...