What is PyCaret

I just saw an article called Announcing PyCaret 1.0.0. .. Since it was an interesting library, this article will explain how to actually use PyCaret. ** PyCaret is a Python library that allows you to perform data preprocessing, visualization, and model development in machine learning model development with just a few lines of code. ** **

PyCaret is a Python wrapper for some of the major machine learning libraries (scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, etc.). It can handle classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, and natural language processing. So to speak, PyCaret is like a free version of DataRobot.

Basically, it seems that you can do everything from preprocessing, modeling, performance evaluation, tuning, and visualization. In addition, stacking can be done. (Some evaluation indexes such as time series analysis and log loss are provided.) PyCaret/Github

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There is also an explanation video of kaggle's Credit Card Fraud Detection using PyCaret, so please take a look.

Let's try PyCaret!

First, install PyCaret.

When installing from a terminal or command prompt, you can install with the following command.

pip install pycaret

In Jupyter Notebook and Google Colab, you can install it with the following command with a! At the beginning.

!pip install pycaret

Load necessary modules & prepare data

This time, I will try multi-class classification using the iris dataset. First, load the required code.

import warnings
#I'll erase unnecessary warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
#The leading role this time! Load PyCaret.
from pycaret.classification import *
#Load the Iris dataset.
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
#Since it handles data frames, it also reads Pandas.
import pandas as pd

Next, prepare the data.

iris = load_iris()
X = pd.DataFrame(iris.data, columns=iris.feature_names)
y = pd.DataFrame(iris.target, columns=["target"])
df = pd.concat([X,y], axis=1)

The first 5 items are displayed.

df.head()

Preprocessing

Now! Preprocessing.

Use ** setup () ** to handle missing values, split data, etc.

Pass the objective variable to target.

exp1 = setup(df, target = 'target')

Let's compare models

To compare models, just use ** compare_models () **.

compare_models()

modeling

Enter the name of the algorithm used for learning by referring to https://pycaret.org/create-model/. This time, we will use the "Quadratic Discriminant Analysis" and the decision tree, which have the highest accuracy rate. For Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, you can enter'qda', so enter qda this time.

qda = create_model('qda')

Let's also try the decision tree.

tree = create_model('dt')

tuning

Let's tune the decision tree.

tuned_tree = tune_model('dt')

Get parameters

tuned_tree.get_params

Model visualization

plot_model(tuned_qda)

plot_model(tuned_tree)

Ensemble learning

lgbm = create_model('lightgbm')
xgboost = create_model('xgboost')

ensemble = blend_models([lgbm, xgboost])

Stacking

stack = stack_models(estimator_list = [xgboost], meta_model = lgbm)

Forecast

pred = predict_model(qda)

Yes, convenient.

Finally

In just a few lines, I was able to complete it. .. I think I'll use it little by little from now on.

Reference site

This is an article that I used as a reference. Please refer to it in addition to this article.

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