What this book covers
Chapter 1, Breast Cancer Detection, will show you how to import data from the UCI repository. In this chapter, we will name the columns (or features) and put them into a pandas DataFrame. We will learn how to preprocess our data and remove the ID column. We will also explore the data so that we know more about it. We will also see how to create histograms (so that we can understand the distributions of the different features) and a scatterplot matrix (so that we can look for linear relationships between the variables). We will learn how to implement some testing parameters, build a KNN classifier and an SVC, and compare their results using a classification report. Finally, we will build our own cell and explore what ...
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