Mastering Machine Learning with Python in Six Steps: A Practical Implementation Guide to Predictive Data Analytics Using Python

©  Manohar Swamynathan 2019

M. SwamynathanMastering Machine Learning with Python in Six Stepshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4947-5_4

4. Step 4: Model Diagnosis and Tuning

Manohar Swamynathan¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

In this chapter, we’ll learn about the different pitfalls that one should be aware and will encounter while building a machine learning (ML) system. We’ll also learn industry standard efficient design practices to solve it.

Throughout this chapter we’ll mostly be using a dataset from the UCI repository, “Pima Indian diabetes,” which has 768 records, 8 attributes, 2 classes, 268 (34.9%) positive results for a diabetes test, and 500 (65.1%) negative results. All patients were females at least 21 years old of Pima Indian heritage. ...