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Learning Data Mining with Python

You're reading from   Learning Data Mining with Python Use Python to manipulate data and build predictive models

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126787
Length 358 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Data Mining FREE CHAPTER 2. Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators 3. Predicting Sports Winners with Decision Trees 4. Recommending Movies Using Affinity Analysis 5. Features and scikit-learn Transformers 6. Social Media Insight using Naive Bayes 7. Follow Recommendations Using Graph Mining 8. Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks 9. Authorship Attribution 10. Clustering News Articles 11. Object Detection in Images using Deep Neural Networks 12. Working with Big Data 13. Next Steps...

Evaluation

It is generally never a good idea to base an assessment on a single number. In the case of the f-score, it is usually more robust to tricks that give good scores despite not being useful. An example of this is accuracy. As we said in our previous chapter, a spam classifier could predict everything as being spam and get over 80 percent accuracy, although that solution is not useful at all. For that reason, it is usually worth going more in-depth on the results.

To start with, we will look at the confusion matrix, as we did in Chapter 8, Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks. Before we can do that, we need to predict a testing set. The previous code uses cross_val_score, which doesn't actually give us a trained model we can use. So, we will need to refit one. To do that, we need training and testing subsets:

from sklearn.cross_validation import train_test_split training_documents, 

testing_documents...
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