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The Machine Learning Workshop - Second Edition

By : Hyatt Saleh
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The Machine Learning Workshop - Second Edition

By: Hyatt Saleh

Overview of this book

Machine learning algorithms are an integral part of almost all modern applications. To make the learning process faster and more accurate, you need a tool flexible and powerful enough to help you build machine learning algorithms quickly and easily. With The Machine Learning Workshop, you'll master the scikit-learn library and become proficient in developing clever machine learning algorithms. The Machine Learning Workshop begins by demonstrating how unsupervised and supervised learning algorithms work by analyzing a real-world dataset of wholesale customers. Once you've got to grips with the basics, you'll develop an artificial neural network using scikit-learn and then improve its performance by fine-tuning hyperparameters. Towards the end of the workshop, you'll study the dataset of a bank's marketing activities and build machine learning models that can list clients who are likely to subscribe to a term deposit. You'll also learn how to compare these models and select the optimal one. By the end of The Machine Learning Workshop, you'll not only have learned the difference between supervised and unsupervised models and their applications in the real world, but you'll also have developed the skills required to get started with programming your very own machine learning algorithms.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface

Error Analysis

In the previous chapter, we explained the importance of error analysis. In this section, the different evaluation metrics will be calculated for all three models that were created in the previous activities so that we can compare them.

For learning purposes, we will compare the models using accuracy, precision, and recall metrics. This way, it will be possible to see that even though a model might be better in terms of one metric, it could be worse when measuring a different metric, which helps to emphasize the importance of choosing the right metric to measure your model according to the goal you wish to achieve.

Accuracy, Precision, and Recall

As a quick reminder, in order to measure performance and perform error analysis, it is required that you use the predict method for the different sets of data (training, validation, and testing). The following code snippets present a clean way of measuring all three metrics on our three sets at once:

Note

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