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scikit-learn is a popular machine learning package for Python that has simple and efficient tools for predictive data analysis. Topics include classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, model selection, and preprocessing.

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Choosing your own initialisation points for kmeans

Kmeans clustering will randomly select the initialisation points and then run the algorithm until convergence is reached. Is there a way I can choose my own initialisation points and pass them into th …
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Max depth for a decision tree in sklearn

I know there is a partial answer here but my question is slightly different. I have implemented a decision tree in sklearn. Say I have $2^n$ different values for a feature, with just one feature. I wa …
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Giving more weight to a particular feature in scikit-learn decision trees

I have a model that I train on same data, but i want a feature to have a stronger weight. Say I have three features: Car manufacturer's name Price Top speed and I want to classify my cars as "Spo …
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How to force weights to be non-negative in Linear regression

I am using a standard linear regression using scikit-learn in python. However, I would like to force the weights to be all non-negative for every feature. is there any way I can accomplish that? I was …
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Learning rate in logistic regression with sklearn

In sklearn, for logistic regression, you can define the penalty, the regularization rate and other variables. Is there a way to set the learning rate?
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What should I use if I have millions of possible values for a feature in a sklearn predictiv...

I am trying to create a large model. One of the features is categorical, and it has almost 100 million entries. I have looked at sklearn LabelEncoder, but I am concerned that it will still create an …
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Performance difference between decision trees and logistic regression when one of the featur...

I have a set of features, one of which is a string. I convert the string to an integer by treating the string as a base 36 number (I only use the first 13 characters). Then I can use DecisionTrees sin …
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Contrasting logistic regression vs decision tree performance in specific example

I have a set of 10,000 integers, and another set of 100. The integers in the first set are mapped to integers in the second set according to some rules (not mathematical rules, think of these values a …
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How does SelectKBest work?

I am looking at this tutorial: https://www.dataquest.io/mission/75/improving-your-submission At section 8, finding the best features, it shows the following code. import numpy as np from sklearn.f …
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Why logistic regression example code does not port to linear regression example?

I am looking at this tutorial: https://www.dataquest.io/mission/74/getting-started-with-kaggle Following is the code for linear regression to predict, based on some variables, the survival of the tit …
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