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The Data Science Workshop

You're reading from   The Data Science Workshop A New, Interactive Approach to Learning Data Science

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838981266
Length 818 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thomas Joseph Thomas Joseph
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Andrew Worsley Andrew Worsley
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Robert Thas John Robert Thas John
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Anthony So Anthony So
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Dr. Samuel Asare Dr. Samuel Asare
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Data Science in Python 2. Regression FREE CHAPTER 3. Binary Classification 4. Multiclass Classification with RandomForest 5. Performing Your First Cluster Analysis 6. How to Assess Performance 7. The Generalization of Machine Learning Models 8. Hyperparameter Tuning 9. Interpreting a Machine Learning Model 10. Analyzing a Dataset 11. Data Preparation 12. Feature Engineering 13. Imbalanced Datasets 14. Dimensionality Reduction 15. Ensemble Learning 16. Machine Learning Pipelines 17. Automated Feature Engineering

Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCV

GridSearchCV will take a model and parameters and train one model for each permutation of the parameters. At the end of the training, it will provide access to the parameters and the model scores. This is called hyperparameter tuning and you will be looking at this in much more depth in Chapter 8, Hyperparameter Tuning.

The usual practice is to make use of a small training set to find the optimal parameters using hyperparameter tuning and then to train a final model with all of the data.

Before the next exercise, let's take a brief look at decision trees, which are a type of model or estimator.

Decision Trees

A decision tree works by generating a separating hyperplane or a threshold for the features in data. It does this by considering every feature and finding the correlation between the spread of the values in that feature and the label that you are trying to predict.

Consider the following data about balloons. The label...

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