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Scikit Learn
Python Scikit-learn
Using Scikit-Learn
Conclusion
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Python SciKit Learn Tutorial

Published on August 3, 2022

Machine Learning Python
By Shubham
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Scikit Learn

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Scikit-learn is a machine learning library for Python. It features several regression,
classification and clustering algorithms including SVMs, gradient boosting, k-means,
random forests and DBSCAN. It is designed to work with Python Numpy and SciPy. The
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third-party extension to SciPy.
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Python Scikit-learn

Scikit is written in Python (most of it) and some of its core algorithms are written in
Cython for even better performance. Scikit-learn is used to build models and it is not
recommended to use it for reading, manipulating and summarizing data as there are
better frameworks available for the purpose. It is open source and released under BSD
license.
Install Scikit Learn

Scikit assumes you have a running Python 2.7 or above platform with NumPY (1.8.2 and
above) and SciPY (0.13.3 and above) packages on your device. Once we have these
packages installed we can proceed with the installation. For pip installation, run the
following command in the terminal:
pip install scikit-learn

If you like conda , you can also use the conda for package installation, run the following
command:
conda install scikit-learn

Using Scikit-Learn

Once you are done with the installation, you can use scikit-learn easily in your Python
code by importing it as:
import sklearn

Scikit Learn Loading Dataset

Let’s start with loading a dataset to play with. Let’s load a simple dataset named Iris. It is
a dataset of a flower, it contains 150 observations about different measurements of the
flower. Let’s see how to load the dataset using scikit-learn.
# Import scikit learn
from sklearn import datasets
# Load data
iris= datasets.load_iris()
# Print shape of data to confirm data is loaded
print(iris.data.shape)

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We are printing shape of data for ease, you can also print whole data if you wish so,
running the codes gives an output like this:

Scikit Learn SVM - Learning and Predicting

Now we have loaded data, let’s try learning from it and predict on new data. For this
purpose we have to create an estimator and then call its fit method.
from sklearn import svm
from sklearn import datasets
# Load dataset
iris = datasets.load_iris()
clf = svm.LinearSVC()
# learn from the data
clf.fit(iris.data, iris.target)
# predict for unseen data
clf.predict([[ 5.0, 3.6, 1.3, 0.25]])
# Parameters of model can be changed by using the attributes ending with an und
print(clf.coef_ )

Here is what we get when we run this script:

Scikit Learn Linear Regression

Creating various models is rather simple using scikit-learn. Let’s start with a simple
example of regression.
#import the model
from sklearn import linear_model
reg = linear_model.LinearRegression()
# use it to fit a data
reg.fit ([[0, 0], [1, 1], [2, 2]], [0, 1, 2])
# Let's look into the fitted data
print(reg.coef_)

Running the model should return a point that can be plotted on the same line:
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k-Nearest neighbour classifier

Let’s try a simple classification algorithm. This classifier uses an algorithm based on ball
trees to represent the training samples.
from sklearn import datasets
# Load dataset
iris = datasets.load_iris()
# Create and fit a nearest-neighbor classifier
from sklearn import neighbors
knn = neighbors.KNeighborsClassifier()
knn.fit(iris.data, iris.target)
# Predict and print the result
result=knn.predict([[0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4]])
print(result)

Let’s run the classifier and check results, the classifier should return 0. Let’s try the
example:

K-means clustering

This is the simplest clustering algorithm. The set is divided into ‘k’ clusters and each
observation is assigned to a cluster. This is done iteratively until the clusters converge.
We will create one such clustering model in the following program:
from sklearn import cluster, datasets
# load data
iris = datasets.load_iris()
# create clusters for k=3
k=3
k_means = cluster.KMeans(k)
# fit data
k_means.fit(iris.data)
# print results
print( k_means.labels_[::10])
print( iris.target[::10])

On running the program we’ll see separate clusters in the list. Here is the output for
above code snippet:
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Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have seen that Scikit-Learn makes it easy to work with several
machine learning algorithms. We have seen examples of Regression, Classification and
Clustering. Scikit-Learn is still in development phase and being developed and
maintained by volunteers but is very popular in community. Go and try your own
examples.

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JournalDev • July 12, 2018

Hi,… While installing i am getting the following error rom distutils customize
MSVCCompiler Missing compiler_cxx fix for MSVCCompiler customize
MSVCCompiler using build_clib building ‘libsvm-skl’ library compiling C sources
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with “Microsoft Visual C++
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c “import setuptools, tokenize;__file__=‘C:\\Users\\sidtrive\\AppData\\Local
\\Temp\\pip-install-2rnp9ekh\\scikit-learn\\setup.py’;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘open’ ,
open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace(‘\r\n’, ‘\n’);f.close();exec(compile(cod e,
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