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Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits

You're reading from   Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits A practical guide to implementing supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826048
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tarek Amr Tarek Amr
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Supervised Learning
2. Introduction to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 3. Making Decisions with Trees 4. Making Decisions with Linear Equations 5. Preparing Your Data 6. Image Processing with Nearest Neighbors 7. Classifying Text Using Naive Bayes 8. Section 2: Advanced Supervised Learning
9. Neural Networks – Here Comes Deep Learning 10. Ensembles – When One Model Is Not Enough 11. The Y is as Important as the X 12. Imbalanced Learning – Not Even 1% Win the Lottery 13. Section 3: Unsupervised Learning and More
14. Clustering – Making Sense of Unlabeled Data 15. Anomaly Detection – Finding Outliers in Data 16. Recommender System – Getting to Know Their Taste 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting a more reliable score

The Iris dataset is a small set of just 150 samples. When we randomly split it into training and test sets, we ended up with 45 instances in the test set. With such a small number, we may have variations in the distribution of our targets. For example, when I randomly split the data, I got 13 samples from class 0 and 16 samples from each one of the two other classesin my test set. Knowing that predicting class 0 is easier than the other two classes in this particular dataset, we can tell that if I was luckier and had more samples of class 0 in the test set, I'd have had a higher score. Furthermore, decision trees are very sensitive to data changes, and you may get a very different tree with every slight change in your training data.

What to do now to get a more reliable score

A statistician would say let's run the whole process of data splitting, training, and predicting, more than once, and get the distribution of the different...

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