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Classification Trees in Python from Start to Finish

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NOTE: You can support StatQuest by purchasing the Jupyter Notebook and Python code seen in this video here: https://statquest.gumroad.com/l/tzxoh This webinar was recorded 20200528 at 11:00am (New York time). NOTE: This StatQuest assumes are already familiar with: Decision Trees: https://youtu.be/7VeUPuFGJHk Cross Validation: https://youtu.be/fSytzGwwBVw Confusion Matrices: https://youtu.be/Kdsp6soqA7o Cost Complexity Pruning: https://youtu.be/D0efHEJsfHo Bias and Variance and Overfitting: https://youtu.be/EuBBz3bI-aA For a complete index of all the StatQuest videos, check out: https://statquest.org/video-index/ If you'd like to support StatQuest, please consider... Buying my book, The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning: PDF - https://statquest.gumroad.com/l/wvtmc Paperback - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZCKR4H6 Kindle eBook - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZG79HXC Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statquest ...or... YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw/join ...a cool StatQuest t-shirt or sweatshirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/statquest-with-josh-starmer/ ...buying one or two of my songs (or go large and get a whole album!) https://joshuastarmer.bandcamp.com/ ...or just donating to StatQuest! https://www.paypal.me/statquest Lastly, if you want to keep up with me as I research and create new StatQuests, follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/joshuastarmer 0:00 Awesome song and introduction 5:23 Import Modules 7:40 Import Data 11:18 Missing Data Part 1: Identifying 15:57 Missing Data Part 2: Dealing with it 21:16 Format Data Part 1: X and y 23:33 Format Data Part 2: One-Hot Encoding 37:29 Build Preliminary Tree 46:31 Pruning Part 1: Visualize Alpha 51:22 Pruning Part 2: Cross Validation 56:46 Build and Draw Final Tree #StatQuest #ML #ClassificationTrees

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diving into one hot encoding and variables in x.', 'duration': 51.889, 'max_score': 1397.76, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI1397760.jpg'}, {'end': 1617.767, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1563.934, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1572.541, 'text': 'All of the other columns, however, need to be inspected to make sure that they only contain reasonable values, and some of them need to change.', 'start': 1563.934, 'duration': 8.607}, {'end': 1582.59, 'text': 'This is because, while scikit-learn decision trees natively supports continuous data like resting blood pressure and maximum heart rate,', 'start': 1573.502, 'duration': 9.088}, {'end': 1589.156, 'text': 'they do not natively support categorical data like chest pain, which contains four different categories.', 'start': 1582.59, 'duration': 6.566}, {'end': 1594.841, 'text': 'Thus, in order to use categorical data with scikit-learn decision trees,', 'start': 1590.08, 'duration': 4.761}, {'end': 1601.783, 'text': 'we have to use a trick that converts a column with categorical data into multiple columns of binary values.', 'start': 1594.841, 'duration': 6.942}, {'end': 1604.884, 'text': 'And this trick is called one-hot encoding.', 'start': 1602.323, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 1614.046, 'text': "Okay, at this point you may be wondering what's wrong with treating categorical data like continuous data?", 'start': 1606.804, 'duration': 7.242}, {'end': 1617.767, 'text': "And to answer that question, we're gonna look at an example.", 'start': 1614.966, 'duration': 2.801}], 'summary': 'Inspect and convert columns for scikit-learn decision trees; 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It explains that while scikit-learn decision trees natively supports continuous data, they do not natively support categorical data, thus requiring the conversion of categorical data into multiple columns of binary values through one-hot encoding.', 'The chapter explains the implications of treating categorical data like continuous data using the example of chest pain values. It provides an example of how treating categorical data as continuous data could lead to misleading interpretations, using the example of chest pain values, and highlights the importance of treating each category as separate and equally similar for more reasonable analysis.', 'The chapter discusses the data types (float or categorical) of different variables in a dataset and the need for inspecting and converting categorical data into binary values using one-hot encoding. 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'src': 'embed', 'start': 1693.319, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1704.226, 'text': "I'm going to use one hot encoding to force scikit-learn to treat this like categorical data rather than continuous data.", 'start': 1693.319, 'duration': 10.907}, {'end': 1713.051, 'text': "So now let's inspect, and if needed, convert the columns that contain categorical and integer data into the correct data types.", 'start': 1705.366, 'duration': 7.685}, {'end': 1717.314, 'text': "We'll start with the chest pane by inspecting its unique values.", 'start': 1714.012, 'duration': 3.302}], 'summary': 'Using one hot encoding for categorical data in scikit-learn.', 'duration': 23.995, 'max_score': 1693.319, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI1693319.jpg'}, {'end': 1773.277, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1747.717, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1753.324, 'text': 'One is called column transformer from psychic learn and the other is called to get dummies from pandas.', 'start': 1747.717, 'duration': 5.607}, {'end': 1756.387, 'text': 'Both methods have pros and cons.', 'start': 1754.185, 'duration': 2.202}, {'end': 1765.252, 'text': "We're going to use get dummies today, because I think it's the best way to teach um How to do one-hot encoding.", 'start': 1757.008, 'duration': 8.244}, {'end': 1767.934, 'text': 'I think it by far is the best way to teach it.', 'start': 1765.252, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 1773.277, 'text': 'However, column transformer is more commonly used in production systems.', 'start': 1768.274, 'duration': 5.003}], 'summary': 'Get dummies is the best way to teach one-hot encoding, while column transformer is more commonly used in production systems.', 'duration': 25.56, 'max_score': 1747.717, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI1747717.jpg'}, {'end': 1831.672, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1806.116, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1816.024, 'text': "And just to see what happens when we convert chest pain, we're going to do this without saving the results, just so we can see how get dummies works.", 'start': 1806.116, 'duration': 9.908}, {'end': 1820.187, 'text': "So what we're doing is we're going to use this Panda function, get dummies.", 'start': 1816.525, 'duration': 3.662}, {'end': 1825.59, 'text': "And we're passing it our data frame, which we're calling X.", 'start': 1820.888, 'duration': 4.702}, {'end': 1828.591, 'text': "That's the data we're using to make prediction.", 'start': 1825.59, 'duration': 3.001}, {'end': 1831.672, 'text': "And we're specifying one column.", 'start': 1829.071, 'duration': 2.601}], 'summary': 'Using pandas get dummies function to convert chest pain, without saving results.', 'duration': 25.556, 'max_score': 1806.116, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI1806116.jpg'}, {'end': 1949.003, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1917.016, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1918.117, 'text': "We're not just going to print it out.", 'start': 1917.016, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 1923.902, 'text': 'Okay, note, in a real situation and not a tutorial like this,', 'start': 1919.458, 'duration': 4.444}, {'end': 1930.607, 'text': 'what you should do is verify that all five of these columns only contain the accepted categories.', 'start': 1923.902, 'duration': 6.705}, {'end': 1942.581, 'text': "I feel like every data set I've ever worked with always has someone just typing in something completely random, and we need to get rid of that stuff.", 'start': 1932.088, 'duration': 10.493}, {'end': 1949.003, 'text': 'So use that unique function to make sure that each one of these columns is correctly formatted.', 'start': 1942.701, 'duration': 6.302}], 'summary': 'Verify all five columns to ensure correct formatting and eliminate random data entries using the unique function.', 'duration': 31.987, 'max_score': 1917.016, 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[{'end': 2003.098, 'text': 'Now we need to talk about the three categorical columns that only contain zeros and ones, sex, fasting, blood sugar, and, uh, exercise induced angina.', 'start': 1991.15, 'duration': 11.948}, {'end': 2017.875, 'text': 'Um, As we can see, one hot encoding converts a column with more than two categories, like chest pain, into multiple columns of zeros and ones.', 'start': 2004.959, 'duration': 12.916}], 'summary': 'Discussing one hot encoding for categorical columns with zeros and ones.', 'duration': 26.725, 'max_score': 1991.15, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI1991150.jpg'}, {'end': 2103.634, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2074.891, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2077.873, 'text': "So we see that we've got all these different values in the y column.", 'start': 2074.891, 'duration': 2.982}, {'end': 2086.958, 'text': "However, in this tutorial, we're just gonna make a tree that does simple 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2163.885, 'duration': 2.463}, {'end': 2177.542, 'text': "If we've got hundreds and hundreds of categories for a single variable, we'd have to have a huge data set, and that can happen.", 'start': 2167.049, 'duration': 10.493}, {'end': 2187.942, 'text': 'And yeah, so we would apply one hot encoding and we would then end up with this data frame.', 'start': 2180.517, 'duration': 7.425}, {'end': 2194.266, 'text': 'our X encoded data frame would then have hundreds and hundreds of extra columns added to it.', 'start': 2187.942, 'duration': 6.324}, {'end': 2205.154, 'text': "I've never used a data set like that before in scikit-learn, so I cannot guarantee that it will not cause the machine to crash.", 'start': 2197.709, 'duration': 7.445}, {'end': 2213.205, 'text': 'however, There are machine learning methods like XGBoost that are designed to deal with situations like that specifically.', 'start': 2205.154, 'duration': 8.051}, {'end': 2218.446, 'text': "So that's another webinar that we'll do in the next couple of months.", 'start': 2214.545, 'duration': 3.901}, {'end': 2222.667, 'text': "I've actually already got the Jupyter Notebook ready for XGBoost.", 'start': 2218.486, 'duration': 4.181}, {'end': 2224.708, 'text': "So we'll be.", 'start': 2223.867, 'duration': 0.841}, {'end': 2227.088, 'text': 'Actually, just a sneak preview.', 'start': 2224.708, 'duration': 2.38}, {'end': 2231.529, 'text': "Next month, we're doing support vector machines, and then we're going to do.", 'start': 2227.648, 'duration': 3.881}, {'end': 2236.583, 'text': "The following month, we're going to do XGBoost.", 'start': 2234.782, 'duration': 1.801}, {'end': 2244.408, 'text': "And then I think after that, we're going to do imputing data, imputing missing values and going through all of the various ways for doing that.", 'start': 2236.703, 'duration': 7.705}, {'end': 2248.25, 'text': "So that's a little shameless self-promotion right there.", 'start': 2244.428, 'duration': 3.822}], 'summary': 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Quantifiable accuracy metrics for classifying non-heart disease and heart disease cases, demonstrating the performance of the decision tree classifier.', 'The chapter covers building and evaluating a decision tree classifier, including visualizing a large decision tree, testing its performance on a dataset, and analyzing the confusion matrix. This encompasses the main topics of the chapter and provides an overview of the content.', 'The process of pruning is discussed to solve the overfitting problem in decision trees, aiming to achieve better results through optimization.', 'Visualizing a large decision tree using the plot tree function from scikit-learn. Describes the process of visualizing a large decision tree using the plot tree function from scikit-learn, emphasizing the size and complexity of the tree.']}, {'end': 3423.605, 'segs': [{'end': 2743.933, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2684.332, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 2694.419, 'text': 'Um, someone asked if this was production code, would we use scikit-learn or would we use something else? Um, I think scikit-learn is fine.', 'start': 2684.332, 'duration': 10.087}, {'end': 2697.281, 'text': "I mean, it's just sort of depends on the situation.", 'start': 2694.579, 'duration': 2.702}, {'end': 2708.722, 'text': "Um, If you've got tons and tons of data and need a lot of optimization for a massive data set, scikit-learn is not great for that.", 'start': 2697.301, 'duration': 11.421}, {'end': 2714.288, 'text': "But for relatively small data sets like what we're using, sure, go ahead and use it.", 'start': 2709.022, 'duration': 5.266}, {'end': 2715.689, 'text': "It's fine.", 'start': 2715.069, 'duration': 0.62}, {'end': 2718.993, 'text': "I've answered these questions.", 'start': 2717.191, 'duration': 1.802}, {'end': 2736.702, 'text': 'Also, I see one in the chat that says, what happens when we remove the missing values after splitting the data into testing and training? It depends.', 'start': 2722.236, 'duration': 14.466}, {'end': 2743.933, 'text': "If you're going to remove rows of data, try to do it beforehand because you don't want a severe imbalance.", 'start': 2738.83, 'duration': 5.103}], 'summary': 'For small data sets, scikit-learn is suitable; optimize beforehand to avoid imbalance.', 'duration': 59.601, 'max_score': 2684.332, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI2684332.jpg'}, {'end': 2825.949, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2797.133, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 2801.878, 'text': 'So decision trees are notorious for being overfit to the training data set.', 'start': 2797.133, 'duration': 4.745}, {'end': 2808.566, 'text': 'And there are a lot of parameters, like maximum depth or the minimum number of samples, like decision trees,', 'start': 2802.519, 'duration': 6.047}, {'end': 2813.011, 'text': "have lots of parameters that we can set and they're all designed to reduce overfitting.", 'start': 2808.566, 'duration': 4.445}, {'end': 2821.286, 'text': 'However, Pruning a tree with cost complexity pruning can simplify the whole process of finding a smaller tree.', 'start': 2813.852, 'duration': 7.434}, {'end': 2825.949, 'text': 'that improves the accuracy with the training date or the testing data set.', 'start': 2821.286, 'duration': 4.663}], 'summary': 'Decision trees can overfit training data, but pruning with cost complexity can lead to improved accuracy on both training and testing datasets.', 'duration': 28.816, 'max_score': 2797.133, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI2797133.jpg'}, {'end': 3011.068, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 2907.057, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 2909.538, 'text': 'So these are the cost complexity pruning alphas.', 'start': 2907.057, 'duration': 2.481}, {'end': 2915.763, 'text': "And here's when we're peeling off the maximum value for alpha, and we're not 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{'end': 2965.49, 'text': 'You can see that with the full-size tree when alpha equals zero and we have the full-size tree.', 'start': 2960.166, 'duration': 5.324}, {'end': 2970.994, 'text': 'we do the best with the training dataset, but we do not do very well with the testing dataset.', 'start': 2965.49, 'duration': 5.504}, {'end': 2973.936, 'text': 'We see that as we prune, we increase alpha.', 'start': 2971.014, 'duration': 2.922}, {'end': 2982.082, 'text': 'so as we increase alpha, the size of the trees gets smaller, and as the trees get smaller, our testing accuracy improves.', 'start': 2973.936, 'duration': 8.146}, {'end': 2986.007, 'text': "And that's good.", 'start': 2985.126, 'duration': 0.881}, {'end': 2991.171, 'text': 'That means we can prune the tree and we can actually perform better with the testing data.', 'start': 2986.047, 'duration': 5.124}, {'end': 2998.036, 'text': 'And just by looking at this, we can kind of guess that a good value for alpha is 0.016.', 'start': 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could subdivide the data.", 'start': 3076.138, 'duration': 5.784}, {'end': 3084.884, 'text': "So now we're gonna use cross-validation.", 'start': 3082.962, 'duration': 1.922}, {'end': 3094.338, 'text': 'This first bit of code is going to use cross-validation,', 'start': 3086.625, 'duration': 7.713}, {'end': 3105.846, 'text': "to show that if we just eyeball this number without using cross-validation if we don't use cross-validation and we just pick the first number, we get,", 'start': 3094.338, 'duration': 11.508}, {'end': 3108.468, 'text': "we actually don't get the optimal tree.", 'start': 3105.846, 'duration': 2.622}, {'end': 3123, 'text': 'We get it at one point, but we see that another splitting of training and testing data set, another fold, gives us really bad accuracy.', 'start': 3109.329, 'duration': 13.671}, {'end': 3124.481, 'text': 'And so we want to avoid that.', 'start': 3123.06, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 3128.624, 'text': "And that's just a function of how the data was split.", 'start': 3125.442, 'duration': 3.182}, {'end': 3134.468, 'text': "So we're using cross-validation to make sure that we don't get tricked.", 'start': 3129.044, 'duration': 5.424}, {'end': 3145.896, 'text': 'OK, so the graph above shows that using different training and data sets with the same alpha resulted in different accuracy,', 'start': 3135.309, 'duration': 10.587}, {'end': 3148.598, 'text': 'suggesting that alpha is sensitive to the data sets.', 'start': 3145.896, 'duration': 2.702}, {'end': 3153.959, 'text': 'So, instead of picking a single training dataset and a single testing dataset,', 'start': 3149.298, 'duration': 4.661}, {'end': 3159.541, 'text': "we're going to use cross-validation to find the optimal value for cost complexity, pruning alpha.", 'start': 3153.959, 'duration': 5.582}, {'end': 3163.362, 'text': "So here we're doing the exact same thing we did before.", 'start': 3160.461, 'duration': 2.901}, {'end': 3173.745, 'text': "However, now we're calculating 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'between 0.014 and 0.015.', 'start': 3225.509, 'duration': 3.723}], 'summary': 'Using cross-validation to find optimal alpha value, improving accuracy.', 'duration': 171.42, 'max_score': 3057.812, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3057812.jpg'}, {'end': 3159.541, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3135.309, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 3145.896, 'text': 'OK, so the graph above shows that using different training and data sets with the same alpha resulted in different accuracy,', 'start': 3135.309, 'duration': 10.587}, {'end': 3148.598, 'text': 'suggesting that alpha is sensitive to the data sets.', 'start': 3145.896, 'duration': 2.702}, {'end': 3153.959, 'text': 'So, instead of picking a single training dataset and a single testing dataset,', 'start': 3149.298, 'duration': 4.661}, {'end': 3159.541, 'text': "we're going to use cross-validation to find the optimal value for cost complexity, pruning alpha.", 'start': 3153.959, 'duration': 5.582}], 'summary': 'Using cross-validation to find optimal alpha for cost complexity pruning.', 'duration': 24.232, 'max_score': 3135.309, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3135309.jpg'}], 'start': 2684.332, 'title': 'Optimizing decision trees', 'summary': 'Discusses optimizing decision trees using cross-complexity pruning and cross-validation to find an ideal alpha value of 0.014, significantly improving testing dataset accuracy.', 'chapters': [{'end': 2915.763, 'start': 2684.332, 'title': 'Cost complexity pruning in decision trees', 'summary': 'Discusses the use of scikit-learn for small data sets, the impact of removing missing values after data splitting, and the application of cost complexity pruning in decision trees to reduce overfitting and improve accuracy in training and testing data sets.', 'duration': 231.431, 'highlights': ['The use of scikit-learn is suitable for relatively small data sets, but not for massive data sets requiring extensive optimization. Scikit-learn is recommended for relatively small data sets, while not suitable for massive data sets requiring extensive optimization.', "Removing missing values after data splitting can lead to imbalance, and it's recommended to handle this beforehand to avoid imbalance. Removing missing values after data splitting can lead to imbalance, and it's recommended to handle this beforehand to avoid imbalance.", 'Cost complexity pruning in decision trees simplifies the process of finding a smaller tree to reduce overfitting and improve accuracy in training and testing data sets. Cost complexity pruning in decision trees simplifies the process of finding a smaller tree to reduce overfitting and improve accuracy in training and testing data sets.']}, {'end': 3423.605, 'start': 2916.687, 'title': 'Optimizing decision tree with cross-validation', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of optimizing a decision tree by using cross-complexity pruning and cross-validation, resulting in finding the ideal value for alpha as 0.014, which significantly improves the accuracy for the testing dataset.', 'duration': 506.918, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the process of optimizing a decision tree by using cross-complexity pruning and cross-validation. It details the process of using cross-complexity pruning and cross-validation to optimize a decision tree.', 'The ideal value for alpha is found to be 0.014, which significantly improves the accuracy for the testing dataset. The ideal value for alpha is identified as 0.014, leading to a significant improvement in the accuracy for the testing dataset.', 'The importance of using cross-validation to find the optimal value for cost complexity pruning alpha is emphasized. The chapter emphasizes the importance of using cross-validation to find the optimal value for cost complexity pruning alpha.']}], 'duration': 739.273, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI2684332.jpg', 'highlights': ['The ideal value for alpha is found to be 0.014, significantly improving the accuracy for the testing dataset.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of using cross-validation to find the optimal value for cost complexity pruning alpha.', 'Cost complexity pruning in decision trees simplifies the process of finding a smaller tree to reduce overfitting and improve accuracy in training and testing data sets.', "Removing missing values after data splitting can lead to imbalance, and it's recommended to handle this beforehand to avoid imbalance.", 'The use of scikit-learn is suitable for relatively small data sets, but not for massive data sets requiring extensive optimization.']}, {'end': 3980.98, 'segs': [{'end': 3507.458, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 3446.8, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3452.384, 'text': "However, this time we're setting this parameter and then we are fitting it to the training data set.", 'start': 3446.8, 'duration': 5.584}, {'end': 3460.596, 'text': "And now what we're doing is we're plotting a confusion matrix, but now we're using The pruned tree.", 'start': 3454.565, 'duration': 6.031}, {'end': 3469.368, 'text': 'Hooray! The pruned tree is better at classifying patients than the full-sized tree.', 'start': 3460.616, 'duration': 8.752}, {'end': 3479.564, 'text': "Of the 42 people that did not have heart disease, now we're up to 81% correctly classified.", 'start': 3472.597, 'duration': 6.967}, {'end': 3484.609, 'text': 'Before, we only got 74%.', 'start': 3480.144, 'duration': 4.465}, {'end': 3487.532, 'text': "And for the people with heart disease, we're up to 85%.", 'start': 3484.609, 'duration': 2.923}, {'end': 3489.754, 'text': 'And before, we only had 79%.', 'start': 3487.532, 'duration': 2.222}, {'end': 3496.901, 'text': "So now we're ready for the last thing, which is to draw the prune tree and discuss how to interpret it.", 'start': 3489.754, 'duration': 7.147}, {'end': 3500.894, 'text': "So we're gonna draw the tree and this is the prune tree.", 'start': 3498.032, 'duration': 2.862}, {'end': 3507.458, 'text': 'Now, just for reference, this was the original tree, which is huge.', 'start': 3500.954, 'duration': 6.504}], 'summary': 'Using the pruned tree improves patient classification accuracy: 81% for non-heart disease and 85% for heart disease, up from 74% and 79% respectively.', 'duration': 32.764, 'max_score': 3446.8, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3446800.jpg'}, {'end': 3572.249, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3538.897, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 3542.819, 'text': 'um, rather than understanding what the questions actually are.', 'start': 3538.897, 'duration': 3.922}, {'end': 3554.179, 'text': "Um, So by pruning it, we're forcing the tree to not memorize the answers, but to do a better job classifying.", 'start': 3543.699, 'duration': 10.48}, {'end': 3557.696, 'text': "So we're going to discuss how to interpret the tree.", 'start': 3555.174, 'duration': 2.522}, {'end': 3564.262, 'text': 'So each node in the tree has a column name that was used to split.', 'start': 3558.317, 'duration': 5.945}, {'end': 3572.249, 'text': 'So we used CA, values less than 0.5 go to the left, values greater.', 'start': 3564.342, 'duration': 7.907}], 'summary': 'Discussing tree pruning to improve classification accuracy.', 'duration': 33.352, 'max_score': 3538.897, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3538897.jpg'}, {'end': 3690.425, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3666.062, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 3676.407, 'text': 'In conclusion, we have imported data, identified and dealt with missing data, formatted the data for a decision tree using one hot encoding,', 'start': 3666.062, 'duration': 10.345}, {'end': 3679.88, 'text': 'built a preliminary decision tree for classification.', 'start': 3677.079, 'duration': 2.801}, {'end': 3687.423, 'text': "And that's what we use as a reference to know if pruning or optimizing the tree was going to make any difference.", 'start': 3679.9, 'duration': 7.523}, {'end': 3690.425, 'text': 'Then we pruned with cost complexity pruning.', 'start': 3687.663, 'duration': 2.762}], 'summary': 'Imported data, handled missing data, built decision tree for classification.', 'duration': 24.363, 'max_score': 3666.062, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3666062.jpg'}, {'end': 3822.368, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3784.199, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 3787.662, 'text': 'I was like, Hey, I wonder what will happen if I use entropy instead of genie.', 'start': 3784.199, 'duration': 3.463}, {'end': 3792.406, 'text': 'And so shocking to me is that the tree performed a much worse.', 'start': 3788.062, 'duration': 4.344}, {'end': 3800.292, 'text': 'I was under the impression that Entropy and Genie were this roughly equivalent and that you could just use them interchangeably.', 'start': 3793.747, 'duration': 6.545}, {'end': 3804.656, 'text': 'It turns out that at least with this data set, that is not the case.', 'start': 3801.153, 'duration': 3.503}, {'end': 3822.368, 'text': 'Anyways, I want to Oh, someone asked me to confirm a recommendation for using a production system as an alternative to scikit-learn.', 'start': 3806.758, 'duration': 15.61}], 'summary': 'Using entropy instead of genie led to much worse performance, challenging the assumption of their interchangeability.', 'duration': 38.169, 'max_score': 3784.199, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3784199.jpg'}, {'end': 3980.98, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3960.872, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 3967.094, 'text': 'But in terms of sheer interpretability, simplicity, decision trees are the best.', 'start': 3960.872, 'duration': 6.222}, {'end': 3972.897, 'text': 'Random forests are similar, but still a little more challenging to interpret.', 'start': 3967.695, 'duration': 5.202}, {'end': 3975.037, 'text': "So that's the answer to that.", 'start': 3973.877, 'duration': 1.16}, {'end': 3976.378, 'text': 'All right.', 'start': 3976.078, 'duration': 0.3}, {'end': 3978.639, 'text': "I hope everyone's doing OK.", 'start': 3976.398, 'duration': 2.241}, {'end': 3980.98, 'text': 'Until next time, quest on.', 'start': 3978.719, 'duration': 2.261}], 'summary': 'Decision trees are the best for interpretability and simplicity.', 'duration': 20.108, 'max_score': 3960.872, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3960872.jpg'}], 'start': 3423.625, 'title': 'Decision trees and random forests', 'summary': 'Covers pruning decision trees for improving classification accuracy, resulting in 81% to 85% correct classification rate for patients without and with heart disease. it also discusses the process of decision tree classification, emphasizing the significance of pruning to prevent overfitting, and explores the use of decision trees and random forests, addressing the difference between entropy and gini and their impact on tree performance.', 'chapters': [{'end': 3572.249, 'start': 3423.625, 'title': 'Pruning decision tree for better classification', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of pruning a decision tree to improve classification accuracy, resulting in an 81% to 85% correct classification rate for patients without and with heart disease respectively, and emphasizes the significance of pruning in preventing overfitting.', 'duration': 148.624, 'highlights': ['The pruned tree results in an 81% to 85% correct classification rate for patients without and with heart disease respectively, compared to the previous rates of 74% and 79%.', 'Pruning the decision tree prevents overfitting, ensuring better classification by avoiding memorization of answers and emphasizing understanding of the data.', 'The process involves setting the parameter CCP alpha to the ideal value and fitting it to the training data set, followed by plotting a confusion matrix using the pruned tree.']}, {'end': 3754.832, 'start': 3572.309, 'title': 'Decision tree classification process', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of importing, formatting, building, pruning, interpreting, and evaluating a decision tree for classification, with a focus on identifying missing data, building a preliminary tree, and then pruning it with cost complexity pruning.', 'duration': 182.523, 'highlights': ['Identified and dealt with missing data, formatted the data for a decision tree using one hot encoding The process involved identifying and addressing missing data and formatting the data for a decision tree using one hot encoding.', 'Built a preliminary decision tree for classification and evaluated the final classification tree A preliminary decision tree was built for classification, and the final classification tree was evaluated as part of the process.', '118 people do not have heart disease and 104 people have heart disease The data includes 118 individuals without heart disease and 104 individuals with heart disease.']}, {'end': 3980.98, 'start': 3755.632, 'title': 'Decision trees and random forests', 'summary': 'Discusses the use of decision trees and random forests, addressing the difference between using entropy and gini, the impact of these measures on tree performance, and the interpretability of decision trees and random forests for medical data.', 'duration': 225.348, 'highlights': ['The use of entropy and Gini measures impacts tree performance, with entropy yielding much worse results in a specific data set. The use of entropy and Gini measures impacts tree performance, with entropy yielding much worse results in a specific data set.', 'The interpretability of decision trees and random forests for medical data is discussed, with a preference for decision trees due to their simplicity and interpretability. The interpretability of decision trees and random forests for medical data is discussed, with a preference for decision trees due to their simplicity and interpretability.', 'Decision trees are favored for their sheer interpretability and simplicity, while random forests are considered similar but more challenging to interpret. Decision trees are favored for their sheer interpretability and simplicity, while random forests are considered similar but more challenging to interpret.']}], 'duration': 557.355, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/q90UDEgYqeI/pics/q90UDEgYqeI3423625.jpg', 'highlights': ['Pruning the decision tree results in an 81% to 85% correct classification rate for patients without and with heart disease, compared to previous rates of 74% and 79%.', 'Pruning prevents overfitting, ensuring better classification by avoiding memorization of answers and emphasizing understanding of the data.', 'Identified and addressed missing data, formatted the data for a decision tree using one hot encoding.', 'The use of entropy and Gini measures impacts tree performance, with entropy yielding much worse results in a specific data set.', 'Decision trees are favored for their sheer interpretability and simplicity, while random forests are considered similar but more challenging to interpret.']}], 'highlights': ['The ideal value for alpha is found to be 0.014, significantly improving the accuracy for the testing dataset.', 'Achieving 71% and 79% accuracy for non-heart disease and heart disease cases, respectively. Quantifiable accuracy metrics for classifying non-heart disease and heart disease cases, demonstrating the performance of the decision tree classifier.', 'Pruning the decision tree results in an 81% to 85% correct classification rate for patients without and with heart disease, compared to previous rates of 74% and 79%.', 'The process of pruning is discussed to solve the overfitting problem in decision trees, aiming to achieve better results through optimization.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of using cross-validation to find the optimal value for cost complexity pruning alpha.', 'Cost complexity pruning in decision trees simplifies the process of finding a smaller tree to reduce overfitting and improve accuracy in training and testing data sets.', 'Pruning prevents overfitting, ensuring better classification by avoiding memorization of answers and emphasizing understanding of the data.', 'Identified and addressed missing data, formatted the data for a decision tree using one hot encoding.', 'The process of setting column names and printing out the first five rows results in nice column names, making it easier to remember and manipulate.', 'The process of formatting the data for making a classification tree involves splitting the data into two parts, using capital X to represent the columns used for classifications and predictions, and lowercase y to represent the column to predict (HD, short for heart disease).', 'One hot encoding is used to format X for making a decision tree, a crucial step in preparing the data for classification.', 'The chapter discusses using one hot encoding to convert categorical and integer data into the correct data types.', 'One-hot encoding applied to categorical columns like chest pain, resting electrocardiogram, slope, and thal', 'Target variable Y values greater than zero converted to one for simplified binary classification', 'One-hot encoding recommended for handling hundreds of unique categories in a massive dataset', 'Challenges with using large datasets in scikit-learn and the need for methods like XGBoost', 'Upcoming webinars on support vector machines and XGBoost', 'The chapter covers building and evaluating a decision tree classifier, including visualizing a large decision tree, testing its performance on a dataset, and analyzing the confusion matrix. This encompasses the main topics of the chapter and provides an overview of the content.', 'Visualizing a large decision tree using the plot tree function from scikit-learn. Describes the process of visualizing a large decision tree using the plot tree function from scikit-learn, emphasizing the size and complexity of the tree.', 'The webinar covers decision trees from start to finish in Python.', 'The presenter shares a Jupyter Notebook and plans to email a copy to all participants.', 'The provided materials can be opened in Jupyter or run directly in Python.', 'The chapter covers building a classification tree with scikit-learn and cost complexity pruning to predict heart disease using data from the UCI machine learning repository.', 'The practicality of classification trees in the medical profession is highlighted, indicating their frequent use due to their traceable rationale for decisions, which is crucial in certain fields.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of classification trees in understanding decision-making processes, as they provide easily interpretable steps, making them useful in justifying predictions and exploring data.', 'Loading essential Python modules to manipulate and format data for analysis. Python modules provide extra functionality for importing, cleaning, and formatting data for analysis.', 'The process involves splitting the data frame into X and Y, where X contains the data for classification and Y contains the known classifications.', 'The chapter explains the implications of treating categorical data like continuous data using the example of chest pain values.', 'The chapter discusses the need for inspecting and converting categorical data into binary values using one-hot encoding for compatibility with scikit-learn decision trees.', 'Comparison of methods using column transformer from scikit-learn and get dummies from pandas.', 'The importance of verifying the correctness of the categorical columns in a real situation is emphasized.', 'Using get dummies on multiple categorical columns with more than two categories is mentioned.', "The Panda function get dummies is used to convert the 'chest pain' column into four separate columns.", 'The use of entropy and Gini measures impacts tree performance, with entropy yielding much worse results in a specific data set.', 'Decision trees are favored for their sheer interpretability and simplicity, while random forests are considered similar but more challenging to interpret.']}