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Python Machine Learning Cookbook: 100 recipes that teach you how to perform various machine learning tasks in the real world

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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

Chapter 2. Constructing a Classifier

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Building a simple classifier
  • Building a logistic regression classifier
  • Building a Naïve Bayes classifier
  • Splitting the dataset for training and testing
  • Evaluating the accuracy using cross-validation
  • Visualizing the confusion matrix
  • Extracting the performance report
  • Evaluating cars based on their characteristics
  • Extracting validation curves
  • Extracting learning curves
  • Estimating the income bracket

Introduction

In the field of machine learning, classification refers to the process of using the characteristics of data to separate it into a certain number of classes. This is different from regression that we discussed in the previous chapter where the output is a real number. A supervised learning classifier builds a model using labeled training data and then uses this model to classify unknown data.

A classifier can be any algorithm that implements classification. In simple cases, this classifier can be a straightforward mathematical function. In more real-world cases, this classifier can take very complex forms. In the course of study, we will see that classification can be either binary, where we separate data into two classes, or it can be multiclass, where we separate data into more than two classes. The mathematical techniques that are devised to deal with the classification problem tend to deal with two classes, so we extend them in different ways to deal with the multiclass...

Building a simple classifier

Let's see how to build a simple classifier using some training data.

How to do it…

  1. We will use the simple_classifier.py file that is already provided to you as reference. Assuming that you imported the numpy and matplotlib.pyplot packages like we did in the last chapter, let's create some sample data:
    X = np.array([[3,1], [2,5], [1,8], [6,4], [5,2], [3,5], [4,7], [4,-1]])
  2. Let's assign some labels to these points:
    y = [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0]
  3. As we have only two classes, the y list contains 0s and 1s. In general, if you have N classes, then the values in y will range from 0 to N-1. Let's separate the data into classes based on the labels:
    class_0 = np.array([X[i] for i in range(len(X)) if y[i]==0])
class_1 = np.array([X[i] for i in range(len(X)) if y[i]==1])
  4. To get an idea about our data, let's plot it, as follows:
    plt.figure()
plt.scatter(class_0[:,0], class_0[:,1], color='black', marker='s')
plt.scatter(class_1[:,0...

Building a logistic regression classifier

Despite the word regression being present in the name, logistic regression is actually used for classification purposes. Given a set of datapoints, our goal is to build a model that can draw linear boundaries between our classes. It extracts these boundaries by solving a set of equations derived from the training data.

How to do it…

  1. Let's see how to do this in Python. We will use the logistic_regression.py file that is provided to you as a reference. Assuming that you imported the necessary packages, let's create some sample data along with training labels:
    import numpy as np
from sklearn import linear_model 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

X = np.array([[4, 7], [3.5, 8], [3.1, 6.2], [0.5, 1], [1, 2], [1.2, 1.9], [6, 2], [5.7, 1.5], [5.4, 2.2]])
y = np.array([0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2])

    Here, we assume that we have three classes.

  2. Let's initialize the logistic regression classifier:
    classifier = linear_model.LogisticRegression(solver...

Building a Naive Bayes classifier

A Naive Bayes classifier is a supervised learning classifier that uses Bayes' theorem to build the model. Let's go ahead and build a Naïve Bayes classifier.

How to do it…

  1. We will use naive_bayes.py that is provided to you as reference. Let's import a couple of things:
    from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB 
from logistic_regression import plot_classifier
  2. You were provided with a data_multivar.txt file. This contains data that we will use here. This contains comma-separated numerical data in each line. Let's load the data from this file:
    input_file = 'data_multivar.txt'

X = []
y = []
with open(input_file, 'r') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        data = [float(x) for x in line.split(',')]
        X.append(data[:-1])
        y.append(data[-1]) 

X = np.array(X)
y = np.array(y)

    We have now loaded the input data into X and the labels into y.

  3. Let's build the Naive Bayes classifier:
    classifier_gaussiannb...

Splitting the dataset for training and testing

Let's see how to split our data properly into training and testing datasets.

How to do it…

  1. Add the following code snippet into the same Python file as the previous recipe:
    from sklearn import cross_validation

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = cross_validation.train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25, random_state=5)
classifier_gaussiannb_new = GaussianNB()
classifier_gaussiannb_new.fit(X_train, y_train)

    Here, we allocated 25% of the data for testing, as specified by the test_size parameter. The remaining 75% of the data will be used for training.

  2. Let's evaluate the classifier on test data:
    y_test_pred = classifier_gaussiannb_new.predict(X_test)
  3. Let's compute the accuracy of the classifier:
    accuracy = 100.0 * (y_test == y_test_pred).sum() / X_test.shape[0]
print "Accuracy of the classifier =", round(accuracy, 2), "%"
  4. Let's plot the datapoints and the boundaries on test data:
    plot_classifier(classifier_gaussiannb_new...

Evaluating the accuracy using cross-validation

The cross-validation is an important concept in machine learning. In the previous recipe, we split the data into training and testing datasets. However, in order to make it more robust, we need to repeat this process with different subsets. If we just fine-tune it for a particular subset, we may end up overfitting the model. Overfitting refers to a situation where we fine-tune a model too much to a dataset and it fails to perform well on unknown data. We want our machine learning model to perform well on unknown data.

Getting ready…

Before we discuss how to perform cross-validation, let's talk about performance metrics. When we are dealing with machine learning models, we usually care about three things: precision, recall, and F1 score. We can get the required performance metric using the parameter scoring. Precision refers to the number of items that are correctly classified as a percentage of the overall number of items in the...

Introduction

In the field of machine learning, classification refers to the process of using the characteristics of data to separate it into a certain number of classes. This is different from regression that we discussed in the previous chapter where the output is a real number. A supervised learning classifier builds a model using labeled training data and then uses this model to classify unknown data.

A classifier can be any algorithm that implements classification. In simple cases, this classifier can be a straightforward mathematical function. In more real-world cases, this classifier can take very complex forms. In the course of study, we will see that classification can be either binary, where we separate data into two classes, or it can be multiclass, where we separate data into more than two classes. The mathematical techniques that are devised to deal with the classification problem tend to deal with two classes, so we extend them in different ways to deal with the multiclass problem...

Building a simple classifier

Let's see how to build a simple classifier using some training data.

How to do it…

  1. We will use the simple_classifier.py file that is already provided to you as reference. Assuming that you imported the numpy and matplotlib.pyplot packages like we did in the last chapter, let's create some sample data:

    X = np.array([[3,1], [2,5], [1,8], [6,4], [5,2], [3,5], [4,7], [4,-1]])

  2. Let's assign some labels to these points:

    y = [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0]

  3. As we have only two classes, the y list contains 0s and 1s. In general, if you have N classes, then the values in y will range from 0 to N-1. Let's separate the data into classes based on the labels:

    class_0 = np.array([X[i] for i in range(len(X)) if y[i]==0])
class_1 = np.array([X[i] for i in range(len(X)) if y[i]==1])

  4. To get an idea about our data, let's plot it, as follows:

    plt.figure()
plt.scatter(class_0[:,0], class_0[:,1], color='black', marker='s')
plt.scatter(class_1[:,0], class_1[:,1], color='black', marker='x')

    This is a...

Building a logistic regression classifier

Despite the word regression being present in the name, logistic regression is actually used for classification purposes. Given a set of datapoints, our goal is to build a model that can draw linear boundaries between our classes. It extracts these boundaries by solving a set of equations derived from the training data.

How to do it…

  1. Let's see how to do this in Python. We will use the logistic_regression.py file that is provided to you as a reference. Assuming that you imported the necessary packages, let's create some sample data along with training labels:

    import numpy as np
from sklearn import linear_model 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

X = np.array([[4, 7], [3.5, 8], [3.1, 6.2], [0.5, 1], [1, 2], [1.2, 1.9], [6, 2], [5.7, 1.5], [5.4, 2.2]])
y = np.array([0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2])

    Here, we assume that we have three classes.

  2. Let's initialize the logistic regression classifier:

    classifier = linear_model.LogisticRegression(solver='liblinear', C=100...

Building a Naive Bayes classifier

A Naive Bayes classifier is a supervised learning classifier that uses Bayes' theorem to build the model. Let's go ahead and build a Naïve Bayes classifier.

How to do it…

  1. We will use naive_bayes.py that is provided to you as reference. Let's import a couple of things:

    from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB 
from logistic_regression import plot_classifier

  2. You were provided with a data_multivar.txt file. This contains data that we will use here. This contains comma-separated numerical data in each line. Let's load the data from this file:

    input_file = 'data_multivar.txt'

X = []
y = []
with open(input_file, 'r') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        data = [float(x) for x in line.split(',')]
        X.append(data[:-1])
        y.append(data[-1]) 

X = np.array(X)
y = np.array(y)

    We have now loaded the input data into X and the labels into y.

  3. Let's build the Naive Bayes classifier:

    classifier_gaussiannb = GaussianNB()
classifier_gaussiannb.fit(X, y)
y_pred...

Splitting the dataset for training and testing

Let's see how to split our data properly into training and testing datasets.

How to do it…

  1. Add the following code snippet into the same Python file as the previous recipe:

    from sklearn import cross_validation

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = cross_validation.train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25, random_state=5)
classifier_gaussiannb_new = GaussianNB()
classifier_gaussiannb_new.fit(X_train, y_train)

    Here, we allocated 25% of the data for testing, as specified by the test_size parameter. The remaining 75% of the data will be used for training.

  2. Let's evaluate the classifier on test data:

    y_test_pred = classifier_gaussiannb_new.predict(X_test)

  3. Let's compute the accuracy of the classifier:

    accuracy = 100.0 * (y_test == y_test_pred).sum() / X_test.shape[0]
print "Accuracy of the classifier =", round(accuracy, 2), "%"

  4. Let's plot the datapoints and the boundaries on test data:

    plot_classifier(classifier_gaussiannb_new, X_test, y_test)

  5. You should see the following...

Evaluating the accuracy using cross-validation

The cross-validation is an important concept in machine learning. In the previous recipe, we split the data into training and testing datasets. However, in order to make it more robust, we need to repeat this process with different subsets. If we just fine-tune it for a particular subset, we may end up overfitting the model. Overfitting refers to a situation where we fine-tune a model too much to a dataset and it fails to perform well on unknown data. We want our machine learning model to perform well on unknown data.

Getting ready…

Before we discuss how to perform cross-validation, let's talk about performance metrics. When we are dealing with machine learning models, we usually care about three things: precision, recall, and F1 score. We can get the required performance metric using the parameter scoring. Precision refers to the number of items that are correctly classified as a percentage of the overall number of items in the list. Recall...

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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.

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13 Chapters
1. The Realm of Supervised Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. The Realm of Supervised Learning
Introduction
Preprocessing data using different techniques
Label encoding
Building a linear regressor
Computing regression accuracy
Achieving model persistence
Building a ridge regressor
Building a polynomial regressor
Estimating housing prices
Computing the relative importance of features
Estimating bicycle demand distribution
2. Constructing a Classifier Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Constructing a Classifier
Introduction
Building a simple classifier
Building a logistic regression classifier
Building a Naive Bayes classifier
Splitting the dataset for training and testing
Evaluating the accuracy using cross-validation
Visualizing the confusion matrix
Extracting the performance report
Evaluating cars based on their characteristics
Extracting validation curves
Extracting learning curves
Estimating the income bracket
3. Predictive Modeling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Predictive Modeling
Introduction
Building a linear classifier using Support Vector Machine (SVMs)
Building a nonlinear classifier using SVMs
Tackling class imbalance
Extracting confidence measurements
Finding optimal hyperparameters
Building an event predictor
Estimating traffic
4. Clustering with Unsupervised Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Clustering with Unsupervised Learning
Introduction
Clustering data using the k-means algorithm
Compressing an image using vector quantization
Building a Mean Shift clustering model
Grouping data using agglomerative clustering
Evaluating the performance of clustering algorithms
Automatically estimating the number of clusters using DBSCAN algorithm
Finding patterns in stock market data
Building a customer segmentation model
5. Building Recommendation Engines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Building Recommendation Engines
Introduction
Building function compositions for data processing
Building machine learning pipelines
Finding the nearest neighbors
Constructing a k-nearest neighbors classifier
Constructing a k-nearest neighbors regressor
Computing the Euclidean distance score
Computing the Pearson correlation score
Finding similar users in the dataset
Generating movie recommendations
6. Analyzing Text Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Analyzing Text Data
Introduction
Preprocessing data using tokenization
Stemming text data
Converting text to its base form using lemmatization
Dividing text using chunking
Building a bag-of-words model
Building a text classifier
Identifying the gender
Analyzing the sentiment of a sentence
Identifying patterns in text using topic modeling
7. Speech Recognition Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Speech Recognition
Introduction
Reading and plotting audio data
Transforming audio signals into the frequency domain
Generating audio signals with custom parameters
Synthesizing music
Extracting frequency domain features
Building Hidden Markov Models
Building a speech recognizer
8. Dissecting Time Series and Sequential Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Dissecting Time Series and Sequential Data
Introduction
Transforming data into the time series format
Slicing time series data
Operating on time series data
Extracting statistics from time series data
Building Hidden Markov Models for sequential data
Building Conditional Random Fields for sequential text data
Analyzing stock market data using Hidden Markov Models
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9. Image Content Analysis
Introduction
Operating on images using OpenCV-Python
Detecting edges
Histogram equalization
Detecting corners
Detecting SIFT feature points
Building a Star feature detector
Creating features using visual codebook and vector quantization
Training an image classifier using Extremely Random Forests
Building an object recognizer
10. Biometric Face Recognition Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Biometric Face Recognition
Introduction
Capturing and processing video from a webcam
Building a face detector using Haar cascades
Building eye and nose detectors
Performing Principal Components Analysis
Performing Kernel Principal Components Analysis
Performing blind source separation
Building a face recognizer using Local Binary Patterns Histogram
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11. Deep Neural Networks
Introduction
Building a perceptron
Building a single layer neural network
Building a deep neural network
Creating a vector quantizer
Building a recurrent neural network for sequential data analysis
Visualizing the characters in an optical character recognition database
Building an optical character recognizer using neural networks
12. Visualizing Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Visualizing Data
Introduction
Plotting 3D scatter plots
Plotting bubble plots
Animating bubble plots
Drawing pie charts
Plotting date-formatted time series data
Plotting histograms
Visualizing heat maps
Animating dynamic signals
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The cookbook is excellent. Focused and relevant to the needs of the machine learnig community. The author has communicated with clarity for the individual who would like to learn the practical aspects of implementing learning algorithms of today and for the future. Excellent work, uptodate and very relevant for the applications of the day!. Every algorithm works and is applicable easily.
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I'm relatively new to Python and I would like to say that this book is very friendly to Python beginners. The projects were easy to understand and the code is explained step by step. It was interesting to learn how to work with different types of data like images, text, and audio. I would definitely recommend this book to people who want to get started with machine learning in Python.
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I would say this book is ideal for anyone who knows some Machine Learning basics and has experience with Python, but it's also a great book for beginners who want to learn about practical ML problems. I've taken Andrew Ng’s Stanford Machine Learning courses in the past, and converting the theories into code isn't always intuitive. However, this book teaches you how to implement those algorithms into code, with lots of practical problems and easy-to-understand example code. Also, the additional graphs and images helped me visualize the concepts. Highly recommended!
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I didnot fall in love at all with this book. many recipes, but treated very fast. I found a couple of tips, but other books of same publisher are better i brlive
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