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In yesterday’s post, we asked the basic question of what is machine learning. I hoped to illustrate the similarities and differences between artificial intelligence and machine learning. Lately, on this site, we have been spending a bit of time using Python and I wanted to take a moment today to look at a great library for machine learning in Python.
Scikit-learn is the go-to library for machine learning with an amazing ecosystem of plugins. It is open-source and supports supervised and unsupervised learning. It also provides various tools for model fitting, data preprocessing, model selection, model evaluation, and many other utilities. After you python3 -m venv EnvironmentName and source EnvironmentName/bin/activate, you can install it by running pip install scikit-learn. At that point, you can reference it in your code as sklearn.
The way that scikit-learn works is that you start with some data, you give it to a model, the model learns from it, and then you will be able to make predictions. The common notation is splitting up the data into a part called X (everything you are using to make a prediction) and another part called Y (the prediction you are interested in making). The X could be information about a house (square feet, number of bathrooms, etc) where Y is the house price, or X could be a patient’s health statistics where Y is whether or not they develop diabetes. The model then uses X to try to predict Y.
In the above code, we load the 20,640 records and 9 columns into the data variable and then we set the things that we are using to make a prediction to X and the prediction that we are interested in making to y. So, what are the feature (column) names for the data? If you print(data.feature_names), it will print them.
sklearn.model_selection
Once you have data, you can start working on creating a model. The model itself is nothing more than a Python object but the goal after you create it is to train it. You will want to split your data into a training set and a test set. Using <a href="https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html#sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split">train_test_split</a> in sklearn.model_selection, you can split it into 70% of the data for training the model and 30% of the data for testing the model (or whatever split you want).
In the above example, we are taking any X values except num_preg (the number of pregnancies) that have the value 0 and setting it to the mean. That makes it so that missing values don’t scew things when you go to train the model.
The neat thing about .fit() is that if you want to swap out the KNeighborsRegressor model with a new one, .fit() still works just the same. Let’s look at what it would look like using a linear regression model.
In the above code, we are predicting the value for y and then comparing it against the actual value of y. Using just the training data, it is predicting the values with a 75.23% level of accuracy.
So, what is next?
In a future post, I want to step through the whole process of picking a statement to test, adjusting the data, building and training a model, testing, adjusting the model, and making predictions. Let’s save that for another day, though.
Last week, we went over some basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) using Ollama, Llama3, and some custom code. Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses a broad range of technologies designed to enable machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. These tasks include understanding spoken or written language, recognizing visual patterns, making decisions, and providing recommendations. Machine learning (ML) is a specialized subset of AI that focuses on developing systems that improve their performance over time without being explicitly programmed. Instead, ML algorithms analyze and learn from large datasets to identify patterns and make decisions based on these insights. This learning process allows ML models to make increasingly accurate predictions or decisions as they are exposed to more data.
A few months ago, I added Liner to the resource page of my website. It allows you to easily train an ML model so that you can do image, text, audio, or video classification, object detection, image segmentation, or pose classification. I created “Is this Joe or Not Joe?” using that tool. TensorFlow.js is running client-side with a model that is trained on a half dozen examples of photos that are Joe and a half dozen examples of photos that are not Joe. You can supply a photo and get a prediction if Joe is in the image or not. You can always retrain the existing model with more examples. That is an example of machine learning.
So, you can think of ML as a subset of AI and Deep Learning (DL) as a subset of ML.
Have any questions, comments, etc? Please feel free to drop a comment, below.
📣 Exciting news, everyone! 🌟 Make sure to head over to this weeks blog "What's new in R 4.4.0?" by Russ Hyde, and dive into the world of the latest R release📊🔬💻
Discover some of the amazing new features that this version has to offer! 🔍 🔭 🚀
Very nice picture that was shared by Ronald van Loon on X, you can discuss if the categories are complete and correct, but it illustrates that the field of AI is much more then just transformers/LLMs. #AI#Machinelearning#neuralnetworks#deeplearning#LLM#Transfomers
Lots of people who work in #AI have, in their head, an idea about what sort of interaction with an #LLMmight give them pause. The thing that might make them start to suspect that something interesting is happening.
Here's mine:
User: Tell me a cat joke.
LLM: Why did the cat join a band? He wanted to be a purr-cussionist.
The skforecast Python 🐍 library provides ML applications for time series forecasting using different regression models from the scikit-learn library. Here is a tutorial by Joaquín Amat Rodrigo and Javier Escobar Ortiz for time series forecasting with the skforecast using XGBoost, LightGBM, Scikit-learn, and CatBoost models 🚀.
:blobcat_think: I think I've figured out what's been bothering me about this: the text here implies data organises itself.
AI is both the dataset and the organising analysis and management structure that implements decisions/responses based on that dataset.
Where 'Cloud' is an empty marketing term and 'other people's computers' accurately states the real condition, this text here presents only a partial representation of what comprises an AI.
Assuming this is deliberate to highlight the mass theft of data the use of "other people's" from the original phrase doesn't directly state no permission was given for that use. Saying "Just stolen data" would make that point crystal clear.
Sorry. This is pure pedantry from me but it really has been niggling at me since i saw this a week ago. Apparently I'll get no peace if I don't let this out!
[1/2] Surprising findings in brain research 🧠: As a team from #CharitéBerlin shows in #Science, thoughts in the human neocortex flow in one direction ⬆️, as opposed to the loops seen in mice 🔄. That makes processing information extra efficient. These discoveries could further the development of artificial neural networks.
Meta released today Llama 3, the next generation of the Llama model. LLama 3 is a state-of-the-art open-source large language model. Here are some of the key features of the model: 🧵👇🏼