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Published inNov 2017
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ISBN-139781787286382
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Trent Hauck
Trent Hauck
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Trent Hauck

Trent Hauck is a data scientist living and working in the Seattle area. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kansas. He is the author of the book Instant Data Intensive Apps with pandas How-to, Packt Publishing—a book that can get you up to speed quickly with pandas and other associated technologies.
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Plotting an ROC curve without context

How to do it...

An ROC curve is a diagnostic tool for any classifier without any context. No context means that we do not know yet which error type (FP or FN) is less desirable yet. Let us plot it right away using a vector of probabilities, y_pred_proba[:,1]:

from sklearn.metrics import roc_curve

fpr, tpr, ths = roc_curve(y_test, y_pred_proba[:,1])
plt.plot(fpr,tpr)

The ROC is a plot of the FPR (false alarms) in the x axis and TPR (finding everyone with the condition who really has it) in the y axis. Without context, it is a tool to measure classifier performance.

Perfect classifier

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Published in: Nov 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787286382

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Trent Hauck

Trent Hauck is a data scientist living and working in the Seattle area. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kansas. He is the author of the book Instant Data Intensive Apps with pandas How-to, Packt Publishing—a book that can get you up to speed quickly with pandas and other associated technologies.
Read more about Trent Hauck