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Intro to Machine Learning: Lesson 1

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Introduction to Random Forests. Welcome to Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders! Lesson 1 will show you how to create a "random forest" - perhaps the most widely applicable machine learning model - to create a solution to the "Bull Book for Bulldozers" Kaggle competition, which will get you in to the top 25% on the leaderboard. You'll learn how to use a Jupyter Notebook to build and analyze models, how to download data, and other basic skills you need to get started with machine leraning in practice.

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1886.385, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 1894.591, 'text': 'so, for example, dear for or tail will show us the last few rows of the data frame.', 'start': 1888.106, 'duration': 6.485}], 'summary': 'File size: 9.3mb, 400,000 rows. import and access data via df.raw.', 'duration': 49.285, 'max_score': 1845.306, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y1845306.jpg'}, {'end': 2092.268, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2066.322, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 2073.607, 'text': "so this means they're going to look at the difference between the log of our prediction of price and the log of the actual price,", 'start': 2066.322, 'duration': 7.285}, {'end': 2076.708, 'text': "and Then they're going to square it and add them up.", 'start': 2073.607, 'duration': 3.101}, {'end': 2081.091, 'text': "okay, so because they're going to be focusing on the difference of the logs,", 'start': 2076.708, 'duration': 4.383}, {'end': 2087.907, 'text': 'and 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and manipulate the data using DataFrames, which are similar to R's DataFrames. Pandas can read a 9.3 MB CSV file with 400,000 rows and manipulate the data using DataFrames, which are similar to R's DataFrames.", 'Python 3.6 introduces a simple way of interpolating variables into strings using format strings, denoted by an F at the start, allowing the inclusion of any Python code inside curly braces. Python 3.6 introduces a simple way of interpolating variables into strings using format strings, denoted by an F at the start, allowing the inclusion of any Python code inside curly braces.', 'Kaggle projects are evaluated on root mean squared log error, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the logs as it represents the difference between the log of the prediction of price and the log of the actual price. 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format for machine learning models The transcript emphasizes the importance of converting all variables into numbers for machine learning models, as most machine learning models, including random forests, require numeric input.', 'Process of adding date-related attributes to the dataset for improved model performance The transcript details the process of adding date-related attributes, such as year, month, week, day, etc., to the dataset for enhanced model performance, emphasizing the significance of feature engineering in machine learning.', 'Importance of date-related feature engineering for machine learning models The transcript emphasizes the significance of date-related feature engineering, highlighting that machine learning algorithms cannot automatically discern important date-related information, necessitating manual feature engineering for improved model performance.']}], 'duration': 631.524, 'thumbnail': 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all of the columns, Just as strings and at the end there.", 'start': 3392.043, 'duration': 14.369}, {'end': 3407.712, 'text': 'They all are right.', 'start': 3406.432, 'duration': 1.28}, {'end': 3410.914, 'text': "so it's removed sale date and it's added all those.", 'start': 3407.712, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 3413.855, 'text': "So that's not quite enough.", 'start': 3410.914, 'duration': 2.941}, {'end': 3425.661, 'text': "The other problem is that we've got a whole bunch of strings in there right, so You can just leave that they're gonna pass it back, Thanks.", 'start': 3413.855, 'duration': 11.806}, {'end': 3437.973, 'text': "So Here's like low, high medium, thank you.", 'start': 3430.608, 'duration': 7.365}, {'end': 3446.118, 'text': "So pandas actually has a concept of a category data type, But by default it doesn't turn anything into a category for you.", 'start': 3437.973, 'duration': 8.145}, {'end': 3454.898, 'text': "so I've created something called train cats and creates 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Mappings to let your make sure your test set or validation set uses the same mappings.', 'start': 3510.413, 'duration': 15.842}, {'end': 3534.078, 'text': "okay, so when I go train cats, It's actually not going to make the data frame look different at all Behind the scenes.", 'start': 3526.255, 'duration': 7.823}], 'summary': 'The model was non-predictive, and the function ensures consistent mappings for training and test sets.', 'duration': 28.948, 'max_score': 3505.13, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y3505130.jpg'}, {'end': 3641.524, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3615.738, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 3621.922, 'text': "it actually turns out not to work too badly, But it'll work a little bit better if you have these insensible orders.", 'start': 3615.738, 'duration': 6.184}, {'end': 3631.218, 'text': "Okay. so if you want to reorder a category, then you can just go cat dot, set categories and pass in a The order you want and tell it it's ordered,", 'start': 3621.922, 'duration': 9.296}, {'end': 3639.142, 'text': 'and almost every pandas method has an in place Parameter which, rather than returning a new data frame.', 'start': 3631.218, 'duration': 7.924}, {'end': 3641.524, 'text': "It's going to change that data frame.", 'start': 3639.242, 'duration': 2.282}], 'summary': 'Pandas method has an in-place parameter, improving data frame performance.', 'duration': 25.786, 'max_score': 3615.738, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y3615738.jpg'}, {'end': 3763.661, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3738.278, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 3744.683, 'text': "you need to know there's a kind of categorical variable called ordinal, and an ordinal Categorical variable is one that has some kind of order,", 'start': 3738.278, 'duration': 6.405}, {'end': 3753.269, 'text': "like high, medium and low right, and random forests aren't terribly sensitive to that fact.", 'start': 3744.683, 'duration': 8.586}, {'end': 3755.391, 'text': "But it's worth knowing it's there and trying it out.", 'start': 3753.269, 'duration': 2.122}, {'end': 3762.959, 'text': "I Still ordering wouldn't help our maximum debt? 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Impact on decision tree splits, efficiency of reducing multiple splits to a single decision', 'The use of the in-place parameter in pandas methods is explained, highlighting its capability to modify the data frame directly rather than returning a new data frame. Capability to modify data frame directly', 'The efficiency of saving data in feather format for faster processing and communication across computers is emphasized, with details about its speed and co-design by Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas. Speed of feather format, co-design by Wes McKinney']}], 'duration': 614.646, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y3392043.jpg', 'highlights': ['Pandas has a category data type for creating categorical variables from strings, ensuring consistent mappings between training and test sets, preventing non-predictive models.', "The 'train_cats' function turns strings into numbers, providing a mapping from integers to strings and ensuring the same mappings for test and validation sets.", "The 'apply_categories' function ensures that the test or validation set uses the same mappings as the training set, preventing inconsistent mappings and non-predictive models.", 'The importance of ordering categorical variables for the random forest model is discussed, emphasizing the impact on decision tree splits and the efficiency of reducing multiple splits to a single decision.', 'The use of the in-place parameter in pandas methods is explained, highlighting its capability to modify the data frame directly rather than returning a new data frame.', 'The efficiency of saving data in feather format for faster processing and communication across computers is emphasized, with details about its speed and co-design by Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas.']}, {'end': 4660.588, 'segs': [{'end': 4076.718, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4045.574, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 4048.275, 'text': "so if you restart Jupiter, You'll be able to keep moving along.", 'start': 4045.574, 'duration': 2.701}, {'end': 4052.375, 'text': "so for now on, You don't have to rerun all the stuff above.", 'start': 4048.275, 'duration': 4.1}, {'end': 4056.316, 'text': "you could just say PD, don't read feather and we've got our data frame back.", 'start': 4052.375, 'duration': 3.941}, {'end': 4067.654, 'text': "So the last step we're going to do is to actually replace the strings with their numeric codes,", 'start': 4058.109, 'duration': 9.545}, {'end': 4076.718, 'text': "And we're going to pull out the dependent variable sale price into a separate variable, And we're going to also handle missing continuous values.", 'start': 4067.654, 'duration': 9.064}], 'summary': 'In jupiter, restarting is unnecessary. replace strings with numeric codes, extract dependent variable sale price, and handle missing continuous values.', 'duration': 31.144, 'max_score': 4045.574, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y4045574.jpg'}, {'end': 4275.426, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4247.501, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 4254.724, 'text': "Okay, so for now all we're doing is we're using the categorical codes plus one, Replacing missing values with the median,", 'start': 4247.501, 'duration': 7.223}, {'end': 4259.866, 'text': 'adding an additional column telling us which ones were replaced and removing the dependent variable.', 'start': 4254.724, 'duration': 5.142}, {'end': 4265.44, 'text': "So that's what procdf does.", 'start': 4262.338, 'duration': 3.102}, {'end': 4266.521, 'text': 'It runs very quickly.', 'start': 4265.74, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 4270.643, 'text': "So you'll see now salePrice is no longer here.", 'start': 4267.201, 'duration': 3.442}, {'end': 4275.426, 'text': "We've now got a whole new variable called y that contains salePrice.", 'start': 4271.584, 'duration': 3.842}], 'summary': 'Using categorical codes plus one, replacing missing values with median, and removing dependent variable with procdf. saleprice is now in new variable y.', 'duration': 27.925, 'max_score': 4247.501, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y4247501.jpg'}, {'end': 4356.032, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4328.803, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 4334.427, 'text': "We'll talk about why and how, and a lot about that in detail, but for now all you need to know is no problem.", 'start': 4328.803, 'duration': 5.624}, {'end': 4343.574, 'text': 'Okay, so as long as this is all numbers which it now is, we can now go ahead and create a random forest and So m dot random forest regressor.', 'start': 4334.427, 'duration': 9.147}, {'end': 4347.587, 'text': 'Random forests are trivially parallelizable.', 'start': 4344.625, 'duration': 2.962}, {'end': 4356.032, 'text': "so what that means is that they, if you've got more than one CPU, which everybody will basically on their Computers at home,", 'start': 4347.587, 'duration': 8.445}], 'summary': 'Random forests are trivially parallelizable, allowing for efficient processing with multiple cpus.', 'duration': 27.229, 'max_score': 4328.803, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y4328803.jpg'}, {'end': 4528.323, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4491.56, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4499.146, 'text': 'Okay, then the RMSE and remember this is on the logs was 0.09 for the training set.', 'start': 4491.56, 'duration': 7.586}, {'end': 4502.228, 'text': '0.25 for the validation set.', 'start': 4499.146, 'duration': 3.082}, {'end': 4511.036, 'text': "now, if you actually go to Kaggle and go to the leaderboard In fact let's do it right now He's got private and public.", 'start': 4502.228, 'duration': 8.808}, {'end': 4512.557, 'text': 'I click on public leaderboard.', 'start': 4511.036, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 4528.323, 'text': "We can go down and find out where is 0.25, so there are 475 teams And, generally speaking, if you're in the top half of a capital competition,", 'start': 4514.515, 'duration': 13.808}], 'summary': 'Rmse: training set 0.09, validation set 0.25. 475 teams on kaggle public leaderboard.', 'duration': 36.763, 'max_score': 4491.56, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y4491560.jpg'}, {'end': 4579.173, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4549.576, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 4558.063, 'text': "right with with like, with no thinking at all using the defaults of everything, We're in the top 25% of a capital competition.", 'start': 4549.576, 'duration': 8.487}, {'end': 4569.188, 'text': 'so, like Random, forests are insanely powerful and this totally standardized process is Insanely good for, like any data set.', 'start': 4558.063, 'duration': 11.125}, {'end': 4579.173, 'text': "so We're going to wrap up, but what I'm going to ask you to do For Tuesday it's like take as many Kaggle competitions as you can,", 'start': 4569.188, 'duration': 9.985}], 'summary': 'Using default settings, achieved top 25% in a capital competition by leveraging the power of random forests and standardized processes.', 'duration': 29.597, 'max_score': 4549.576, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y4549576.jpg'}], 'start': 4006.689, 'title': 'Data processing and random forest regression', 'summary': 'Covers data processing using python, including handling missing values and random forest regression, achieving top 25% performance in kaggle competitions with minimal effort, and model evaluation using r-squared and rmse.', 'chapters': [{'end': 4275.426, 'start': 4006.689, 'title': 'Data processing and handling in python', 'summary': 'Covers data processing using python, including installing packages, restarting jupyter, replacing strings with numeric codes, and handling missing values for numeric and categorical data.', 'duration': 268.737, 'highlights': ['The chapter covers data processing using Python, including installing packages, restarting Jupyter, replacing strings with numeric codes, and handling missing values for numeric and categorical data. Data processing in Python, installing packages, restarting Jupyter, replacing strings with numeric codes, handling missing values for numeric and categorical data', 'The function procdf makes a copy of the data frame, grabs the y value, drops the dependent variable from the original, and handles missing values by replacing them with the median for numeric data. Function procdf process, copying data frame, handling missing values', 'For categorical data, the column is replaced with its codes, integers plus one, and missing values are replaced with the median, and an additional column is added to indicate replaced values. Handling missing values for categorical data, replacing column with codes']}, {'end': 4660.588, 'start': 4277.067, 'title': 'Random forest regression', 'summary': 'Discusses the implementation of random forest regression, highlighting its parallelizability, model evaluation using r-squared and rmse, and achieving top 25% performance in kaggle competitions with minimal effort.', 'duration': 383.521, 'highlights': ['Random forests are trivially parallelizable, splitting up the data across different CPUs and linearly scaling with the number of CPUs. Random forests can split up data across CPUs, achieving linear scaling with the number of CPUs and improving performance.', 'Achieving a validation set R-squared of 0.89 and RMSE of 0.25, ranking in the top 25% in Kaggle competition with default settings. Obtaining a validation set R-squared of 0.89 and RMSE of 0.25, which ranks in the top 25% in Kaggle competitions, showcasing the power of random forests with minimal effort.', 'Encouraging participants to replicate the process on Kaggle competitions and data sets, expressing confidence in achieving better models with the knowledge gained in the session. Encouraging participants to replicate the random forest regression process on Kaggle competitions and data sets, expressing confidence in achieving better models than most practicing data scientists.']}], 'duration': 653.899, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/CzdWqFTmn0Y/pics/CzdWqFTmn0Y4006689.jpg', 'highlights': ['Achieving a validation set R-squared of 0.89 and RMSE of 0.25, ranking in the top 25% in Kaggle competition with default settings.', 'Random forests can split up data across CPUs, achieving linear scaling with the number of CPUs and improving performance.', 'The chapter covers data processing using Python, including installing packages, restarting Jupyter, replacing strings with numeric codes, and handling missing values for numeric and categorical data.', 'Encouraging participants to replicate the random forest regression process on Kaggle competitions and data sets, expressing confidence in achieving better models than most practicing data scientists.', 'The function procdf makes a copy of the data frame, grabs the y value, drops the dependent variable from the original, and handles missing values by replacing them with the median for numeric data.']}], 'highlights': ['The importance of watching the course on course.fast.ai is highlighted due to the inability to edit videos after creation.', 'The University of San Francisco machine learning course is introduced, with emphasis on the use of course.fast.ai for updated information and technology changes.', 'Use of cards for important updates in the videos is emphasized, with a specific call to action to click on the card for updates.', 'Content is based on 25 years of unique work in machine learning, promising new material.', 'Involves launching AWS instances or using services like Cressel or paperspace.com, with a recommendation to install required libraries from the FastAI GitHub repo.', 'Emphasizes interactive and iterative prototyping in data science using the FastAI library.', 'Highlights the significance of participating in Kaggle competitions for learning and evaluating model competency.', 'Machine learning for understanding a data set, practical steps for obtaining and processing data, predicting the sale price of bulldozers.', 'Using JavaScript console and web developer tools in Firefox, generating a long curl command for downloading an authenticated data set, cautionary notes on handling and outputting the downloaded file.', "Pandas (PD) is highlighted as the most important tool in Python for working with structured data, widely used and universally abbreviated as 'PD'.", 'The fastai module showcases the significance of Pandas through a list of imports, indicating its widespread usage and importance in data manipulation within the Python ecosystem.', 'Python 3.6 introduces a simple way of interpolating variables into strings using format strings, denoted by an F at the start, allowing the inclusion of any Python code inside curly braces.', 'Kaggle projects are evaluated on root mean squared log error, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the logs as it represents the difference between the log of the prediction of price and the log of the actual price.', 'The integration of NumPy and Pandas for efficient data manipulation.', "The ease of treating arrays, matrices, vectors, and high-dimensional tensors as if they're Python variables using NumPy.", "Random forest regression's universal application and ability to predict various types of data.", "Random forests' resistance to overfitting and minimal feature engineering requirements.", 'The need to convert all variables into numeric format for machine learning models, as most machine learning models, including random forests, require numeric input.', 'Process of adding date-related attributes to the dataset for improved model performance, such as year, month, week, day, etc., emphasizing the significance of feature engineering in machine learning.', 'Pandas has a category data type for creating categorical variables from strings, ensuring consistent mappings between training and test sets, preventing non-predictive models.', "The 'train_cats' function turns strings into numbers, providing a mapping from integers to strings and ensuring the same mappings for test and validation sets.", "The 'apply_categories' function ensures that the test or validation set uses the same mappings as the training set, preventing inconsistent mappings and non-predictive models.", 'The importance of ordering categorical variables for the random forest model is discussed, emphasizing the impact on decision tree splits and the efficiency of reducing multiple splits to a single decision.', 'The efficiency of saving data in feather format for faster processing and communication across computers is emphasized, with details about its speed and co-design by Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas.', 'Achieving a validation set R-squared of 0.89 and RMSE of 0.25, ranking in the top 25% in Kaggle competition with default settings.', 'Random forests can split up data across CPUs, achieving linear scaling with the number of CPUs and improving performance.', 'The chapter covers data processing using Python, including installing packages, restarting Jupyter, replacing strings with numeric codes, and handling missing values for numeric and categorical data.', 'Encouraging participants to replicate the random forest regression process on Kaggle competitions and data sets, expressing confidence in achieving better models than most practicing data scientists.', 'The function procdf makes a copy of the data frame, grabs the y value, drops the dependent variable from the original, and handles missing values by replacing them with the median for numeric data.']}