As promised, in this chapter, we will kick off our supervised learning journey with machine learning classification, and specifically, binary classification. The goal of the chapter is to build a movie recommendation system, which is a good starting point for learning classification from a real-life example—movie streaming service providers are already doing this, and we can do the same.

In this chapter, you will learn the fundamental concepts of classification, including what it does and its various types and applications, with a focus on solving a binary classification problem using a simple, yet powerful, algorithm, Naïve Bayes. Finally, the chapter will demonstrate how to fine-tune a model, which is an important skill that every data science or machine learning practitioner should learn.

We will go into detail on the following topics:

Getting started with classification
Exploring...

Implementing Naïve Bayes

After calculating the movie preference example by hand, as promised, we are going to implement Naïve Bayes from scratch. After that, we will implement it using the scikit-learn package.

Implementing Naïve Bayes from scratch

Before we develop the model, let’s define the toy dataset we just worked with:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> X_train = np.array([
...     [0, 1, 1],
...     [0, 0, 1],
...     [0, 0, 0],
...     [1, 1, 0]])
>>> Y_train = ['Y', 'N', 'Y', 'Y']
>>> X_test = np.array([[1, 1, 0]])

For the model, starting with the prior, we first group the data by label and record their indices by classes:

>>> def get_label_indices(labels):
...     """
...     Group samples based on their labels and return indices
...     @param labels: list of labels
...     @return: dict, {class1: [indices], class2: [indices]}
...     ...

Evaluating classification performance

Beyond accuracy, there are several metrics we can use to gain more insight and avoid class imbalance effects. These are as follows:

Confusion matrix
Precision
Recall
F1 score
The area under the curve

A confusion matrix summarizes testing instances by their predicted values and true values, presented as a contingency table:

Figure 2.8: Contingency table for a confusion matrix

To illustrate this, we can compute the confusion matrix of our Naïve Bayes classifier. We use the confusion_matrix function from scikit-learn to compute it, but it is very easy to code it ourselves:

>>> from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
>>> print(confusion_matrix(Y_test, prediction, labels=[0, 1]))
[[ 60  47]
 [148 431]]

As you can see from the resulting confusion matrix, there are 47 false positive cases (where the model misinterprets a dislike as a like for a movie), and 148...

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