- Python: Advanced Predictive Analytics
- Table of Contents
- Python: Advanced Predictive Analytics
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Module 1
- 1. Getting Started with Predictive Modelling
- 2. Data Cleaning
- Reading the data – variations and examples
- Various methods of importing data in Python
- Basics – summary, dimensions, and structure
- Handling missing values
- Creating dummy variables
- Visualizing a dataset by basic plotting
- Summary
- 3. Data Wrangling
- Subsetting a dataset
- Generating random numbers and their usage
- Grouping the data – aggregation, filtering, and transformation
- Random sampling – splitting a dataset in training and testing datasets
- Concatenating and appending data
- Merging/joining datasets
- Summary
- 4. Statistical Concepts for Predictive Modelling
- 5. Linear Regression with Python
- 6. Logistic Regression with Python
- Linear regression versus logistic regression
- Understanding the math behind logistic regression
- Implementing logistic regression with Python
- Model validation and evaluation
- Model validation
- Summary
- 7. Clustering with Python
- 8. Trees and Random Forests with Python
- 9. Best Practices for Predictive Modelling
- A. A List of Links
- 2. Module 2
- 1. From Data to Decisions – Getting Started with Analytic Applications
- 2. Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization in Python
- 3. Finding Patterns in the Noise – Clustering and Unsupervised Learning
- 4. Connecting the Dots with Models – Regression Methods
- 5. Putting Data in its Place – Classification Methods and Analysis
- 6. Words and Pixels – Working with Unstructured Data
- 7. Learning from the Bottom Up – Deep Networks and Unsupervised Features
- Learning patterns with neural networks
- A network of one – the perceptron
- Combining perceptrons – a single-layer neural network
- Parameter fitting with back-propagation
- Discriminative versus generative models
- Vanishing gradients and explaining away
- Pretraining belief networks
- Using dropout to regularize networks
- Convolutional networks and rectified units
- Compressing Data with autoencoder networks
- Optimizing the learning rate
- The TensorFlow library and digit recognition
- Summary
- Learning patterns with neural networks
- 8. Sharing Models with Prediction Services
- 9. Reporting and Testing – Iterating on Analytic Systems
- Bibliography
- Index
What are the do's and don'ts of a predictive modelling project? This chapter dealt with these pressing questions and listed a number of best practices to make a predictive modelling project successful. Following are the important points:
- Codes should be well-commented, modular, version-controlled, generalized, and not have hard-coded values.
- Data should be observed carefully after every import and manipulation in order to check for any errors that might creep in while performing these operations.
- The choice of the algorithm is guided by the nature of the predictor and outcome variable. The ultimate selection of the algorithm depends upon whether the user prioritizes accuracy or the understandability of the algorithm.
- While reporting the results of a predictive model, the most optimum value of the important statistics and their relevance should be clearly stated.
- Main business questions should be clearly answered. Major finding should be reported clearly. Some actionable recommendations for the findings should be given. All the assumptions should be stated.
As a practitioner of any discipline, one should strive to follow the best practices, to get the best result and impact. The same stands true for predictive modelling as well.
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