Handson/ml-2 Aurelien Geron
Chapter 2 – End-to-end Machine Learning project
Welcome to Machine Learning Housing Corp.! Your task is to predict median house values in Californian districts, given a number of features from these districts.
This notebook contains all the sample code and solutions to the exercices in chapter 2.
Note: You may find little differences between the code outputs in the book and in these Jupyter notebooks: these slight differences are mostly due to the random nature of many training algorithms: although I have tried to make these notebooks' outputs as constant as possible, it is impossible to guarantee that they will produce the exact same output on every platform. Also, some data structures (such as dictionaries) do not preserve the item order. Finally, I fixed a few minor bugs (I added notes next to the concerned cells) which lead to slightly different results, without changing the ideas presented in the book.
Setup¶
First, let's make sure this notebook works well in both python 2 and 3, import a few common modules, ensure MatplotLib plots figures inline and prepare a function to save the figures:
# To support both python 2 and python 3
from __future__ import division, print_function, unicode_literals
# Common imports
import numpy as np
import os
# to make this notebook's output stable across runs
np.random.seed(42)
# To plot pretty figures
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
mpl.rc('axes', labelsize=14)
mpl.rc('xtick', labelsize=12)
mpl.rc('ytick', labelsize=12)
# Where to save the figures
PROJECT_ROOT_DIR = "."
CHAPTER_ID = "end_to_end_project"
IMAGES_PATH = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT_DIR, "images", CHAPTER_ID)
def save_fig(fig_id, tight_layout=True, fig_extension="png", resolution=300):
path = os.path.join(IMAGES_PATH, fig_id + "." + fig_extension)
print("Saving figure", fig_id)
if tight_layout:
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig(path, format=fig_extension, dpi=resolution)
# Ignore useless warnings (see SciPy issue #5998)
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings(action="ignore", message="^internal gelsd")
Get the data¶
import os
import tarfile
from six.moves import urllib
DOWNLOAD_ROOT = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ageron/handson-ml/master/"
HOUSING_PATH = os.path.join("datasets", "housing")
HOUSING_URL = DOWNLOAD_ROOT + "datasets/housing/housing.tgz"
def fetch_housing_data(housing_url=HOUSING_URL, housing_path=HOUSING_PATH):
os.makedirs(housing_path, exist_ok=True)
tgz_path = os.path.join(housing_path, "housing.tgz")
urllib.request.urlretrieve(housing_url, tgz_path)
housing_tgz = tarfile.open(tgz_path)
housing_tgz.extractall(path=housing_path)
housing_tgz.close()
fetch_housing_data()
import pandas as pd
def load_housing_data(housing_path=HOUSING_PATH):
csv_path = os.path.join(housing_path, "housing.csv")
return pd.read_csv(csv_path)
housing = load_housing_data()
housing.head()
housing.info()
housing["ocean_proximity"].value_counts()
housing.describe()
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
housing.hist(bins=50, figsize=(20,15))
save_fig("attribute_histogram_plots")
plt.show()
# to make this notebook's output identical at every run
np.random.seed(42)
import numpy as np
# For illustration only. Sklearn has train_test_split()
def split_train_test(data, test_ratio):
shuffled_indices = np.random.permutation(len(data))
test_set_size = int(len(data) * test_ratio)
test_indices = shuffled_indices[:test_set_size]
train_indices = shuffled_indices[test_set_size:]
return data.iloc[train_indices], data.iloc[test_indices]
train_set, test_set = split_train_test(housing, 0.2)
print(len(train_set), "train +", len(test_set), "test")
from zlib import crc32
def test_set_check(identifier, test_ratio):
return crc32(np.int64(identifier)) & 0xffffffff < test_ratio * 2**32
def split_train_test_by_id(data, test_ratio, id_column):
ids = data[id_column]
in_test_set = ids.apply(lambda id_: test_set_check(id_, test_ratio))
return data.loc[~in_test_set], data.loc[in_test_set]
The implementation of test_set_check() above works fine in both Python 2 and Python 3. In earlier releases, the following implementation was proposed, which supported any hash function, but was much slower and did not support Python 2:
import hashlib
def test_set_check(identifier, test_ratio, hash=hashlib.md5):
return hash(np.int64(identifier)).digest()[-1] < 256 * test_ratio
If you want an implementation that supports any hash function and is compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3, here is one:
def test_set_check(identifier, test_ratio, hash=hashlib.md5):
return bytearray(hash(np.int64(identifier)).digest())[-1] < 256 * test_ratio
housing_with_id = housing.reset_index() # adds an `index` column
train_set, test_set = split_train_test_by_id(housing_with_id, 0.2, "index")
housing_with_id["id"] = housing["longitude"] * 1000 + housing["latitude"]
train_set, test_set = split_train_test_by_id(housing_with_id, 0.2, "id")
test_set.head()
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
train_set, test_set = train_test_split(housing, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)
test_set.head()
housing["median_income"].hist()
Warning: in the book, I did not use pd.cut(), instead I used the code below. The pd.cut() solution gives the same result (except the labels are integers instead of floats), but it is simpler to understand:
# Divide by 1.5 to limit the number of income categories
housing["income_cat"] = np.ceil(housing["median_income"] / 1.5)
# Label those above 5 as 5
housing["income_cat"].where(housing["income_cat"] < 5, 5.0, inplace=True)
housing["income_cat"] = pd.cut(housing["median_income"],
bins=[0., 1.5, 3.0, 4.5, 6., np.inf],
labels=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
housing["income_cat"].value_counts()
housing["income_cat"].hist()
from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedShuffleSplit
split = StratifiedShuffleSplit(n_splits=1, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)
for train_index, test_index in split.split(housing, housing["income_cat"]):
strat_train_set = housing.loc[train_index]
strat_test_set = housing.loc[test_index]
strat_test_set["income_cat"].value_counts() / len(strat_test_set)
housing["income_cat"].value_counts() / len(housing)
def income_cat_proportions(data):
return data["income_cat"].value_counts() / len(data)
train_set, test_set = train_test_split(housing, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)
compare_props = pd.DataFrame({
"Overall": income_cat_proportions(housing),
"Stratified": income_cat_proportions(strat_test_set),
"Random": income_cat_proportions(test_set),
}).sort_index()
compare_props["Rand. %error"] = 100 * compare_props["Random"] / compare_props["Overall"] - 100
compare_props["Strat. %error"] = 100 * compare_props["Stratified"] / compare_props["Overall"] - 100
compare_props
for set_ in (strat_train_set, strat_test_set):
set_.drop("income_cat", axis=1, inplace=True)
Discover and visualize the data to gain insights¶
housing = strat_train_set.copy()
housing.plot(kind="scatter", x="longitude", y="latitude")
save_fig("bad_visualization_plot")
housing.plot(kind="scatter", x="longitude", y="latitude", alpha=0.1)
save_fig("better_visualization_plot")
The argument sharex=False fixes a display bug (the x-axis values and legend were not displayed). This is a temporary fix (see: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/10611). Thanks to Wilmer Arellano for pointing it out.
housing.plot(kind="scatter", x="longitude", y="latitude", alpha=0.4,
s=housing["population"]/100, label="population", figsize=(10,7),
c="median_house_value", cmap=plt.get_cmap("jet"), colorbar=True,
sharex=False)
plt.legend()
save_fig("housing_prices_scatterplot")
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
california_img=mpimg.imread(PROJECT_ROOT_DIR + '/images/end_to_end_project/california.png')
ax = housing.plot(kind="scatter", x="longitude", y="latitude", figsize=(10,7),
s=housing['population']/100, label="Population",
c="median_house_value", cmap=plt.get_cmap("jet"),
colorbar=False, alpha=0.4,
)
plt.imshow(california_img, extent=[-124.55, -113.80, 32.45, 42.05], alpha=0.5,
cmap=plt.get_cmap("jet"))
plt.ylabel("Latitude", fontsize=14)
plt.xlabel("Longitude", fontsize=14)
prices = housing["median_house_value"]
tick_values = np.linspace(prices.min(), prices.max(), 11)
cbar = plt.colorbar()
cbar.ax.set_yticklabels(["$%dk"%(round(v/1000)) for v in tick_values], fontsize=14)
cbar.set_label('Median House Value', fontsize=16)
plt.legend(fontsize=16)
save_fig("california_housing_prices_plot")
plt.show()
corr_matrix = housing.corr()
corr_matrix["median_house_value"].sort_values(ascending=False)
# from pandas.tools.plotting import scatter_matrix # For older versions of Pandas
from pandas.plotting import scatter_matrix
attributes = ["median_house_value", "median_income", "total_rooms",
"housing_median_age"]
scatter_matrix(housing[attributes], figsize=(12, 8))
save_fig("scatter_matrix_plot")
housing.plot(kind="scatter", x="median_income", y="median_house_value",
alpha=0.1)
plt.axis([0, 16, 0, 550000])
save_fig("income_vs_house_value_scatterplot")
housing["rooms_per_household"] = housing["total_rooms"]/housing["households"]
housing["bedrooms_per_room"] = housing["total_bedrooms"]/housing["total_rooms"]
housing["population_per_household"]=housing["population"]/housing["households"]
Note: there was a bug in the previous cell, in the definition of the rooms_per_household attribute. This explains why the correlation value below differs slightly from the value in the book (unless you are reading the latest version).
corr_matrix = housing.corr()
corr_matrix["median_house_value"].sort_values(ascending=False)
housing.plot(kind="scatter", x="rooms_per_household", y="median_house_value",
alpha=0.2)
plt.axis([0, 5, 0, 520000])
plt.show()