Practical example – how to predict the weather
Let's see how we can use the concepts developed in this chapter to predict the weather. Let's assume that we want to predict whether it will rain tomorrow based on the data collected over a year for a particular city.The data available to train this model is in the CSV file called weather.csv
:
- Let's import the data as a pandas data frame:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("weather.csv")
- Let's look at the columns of the data frame:
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- Next, let's look at the header of the first 13 columns of the
weather.csv
data:
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- Now, let's look at the last 10 columns of the
weather.csv
data:
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- Let's use
x
to represent the input features. We will drop theDate
field for the feature list as it is not useful in the context of predictions. We will also drop theRainTomorrow
label:
x = df.drop(['Date','RainTomorrow...