Book Image

The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

By : Anthony So, Thomas V. Joseph, Robert Thas John, Andrew Worsley, Dr. Samuel Asare
5 (1)
Book Image

The Data Science Workshop - Second Edition

5 (1)
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

LogisticRegressionCV

LogisticRegressionCV is a class that implements cross-validation inside it. This class will train multiple LogisticRegression models and return the best one.

Exercise 7.06: Training a Logistic Regression Model Using Cross-Validation

The goal of this exercise is to train a logistic regression model using cross-validation and get the optimal R2 result. We will be making use of the Cars dataset that you worked with previously.

The following steps will help you complete the exercise:

  1. Open a new Colab notebook.
  2. Import the necessary libraries:
    # import libraries
    import pandas as pd
    from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

    In this step, you import pandas and alias it as pd. You will make use of pandas to read in the file you will be working with.

  3. Create headers for the data:
    # data doesn't have headers, so let's create headers
    _headers = ['buying', 'maint', 'doors', 'persons', \
     ...