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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782161400
Pages 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started with Python Machine Learning 2. Learning How to Classify with Real-world Examples 3. Clustering – Finding Related Posts 4. Topic Modeling 5. Classification – Detecting Poor Answers 6. Classification II – Sentiment Analysis 7. Regression – Recommendations 8. Regression – Recommendations Improved 9. Classification III – Music Genre Classification 10. Computer Vision – Pattern Recognition 11. Dimensionality Reduction 12. Big(ger) Data Where to Learn More about Machine Learning Index

Slimming the classifier


It is always worth looking at the actual contributions of the individual features. For logistic regression, we can directly take the learned coefficients (clf.coef_) to get an impression of the feature's impact. The higher the coefficient of a feature is, the more the feature plays a role in determining whether the post is good or not. Consequently, negative coefficients tell us that the higher values for the corresponding features indicate a stronger signal for the post to be classified as bad:

We see that LinkCount and NumExclams have the biggest impact on the overall classification decision, while NumImages and AvgSentLen play a rather minor role. While the feature importance overall makes sense intuitively, it is surprising that NumImages is basically ignored. Normally, answers containing images are always rated high. In reality, however, answers very rarely have images. So although in principal it is a very powerful feature, it is too sparse to be of any value...

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