40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

Practical example – how to predict the weather

Let's see how we can use the concepts developed in this chapter to predict the weather. Let's assume that we want to predict whether it will rain tomorrow based on the data collected over a year for a particular city.

The data available to train this model is in the CSV file called weather.csv:

1. Let's import the data as a pandas data frame:

import numpy as np import pandas as pddf = pd.read_csv("weather.csv")

2. Let's look at the columns of the data frame:

3. Next, let's look at the header of the first 13 columns of the weather.csv data:

4. Now, let's look at the last 10 columns of the weather.csv ...