Kaggle Course：Intro to Machine Learning

Intro to Machine Learning

Submission steps for Kaggle competition(Titanic)

Your First Machine Learning Model

# Code you have previously used to load data
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor
from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_error
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeRegressor
# Path of the file to read. We changed the directory structure to simplify submitting to a competition
iowa_file_path = '../input/train.csv'
home_data = pd.read_csv(iowa_file_path)
# Create target object and call it y
y = home_data.SalePrice
# Create X
features = ['LotArea', 'YearBuilt', '1stFlrSF', '2ndFlrSF', 'FullBath', 'BedroomAbvGr', 'TotRmsAbvGrd']
X = home_data[features]
# Split into validation and training data
train_X, val_X, train_y, val_y = train_test_split(X, y, random_state=1)
# Specify Model
iowa_model = DecisionTreeRegressor(random_state=1)
# Fit Model
iowa_model.fit(train_X, train_y)
# Make validation predictions and calculate mean absolute error
val_predictions = iowa_model.predict(val_X)
val_mae = mean_absolute_error(val_predictions, val_y)
print("Validation MAE when not specifying max_leaf_nodes: {:,.0f}".format(val_mae))

# Using best value for max_leaf_nodes
iowa_model = DecisionTreeRegressor(max_leaf_nodes=100, random_state=1)
iowa_model.fit(train_X, train_y)
val_predictions = iowa_model.predict(val_X)
val_mae = mean_absolute_error(val_predictions, val_y)
print("Validation MAE for best value of max_leaf_nodes: {:,.0f}".format(val_mae))

# Define the model. Set random_state to 1
rf_model = RandomForestRegressor(random_state=1)
rf_model.fit(train_X, train_y)
rf_val_predictions = rf_model.predict(val_X)
rf_val_mae = mean_absolute_error(rf_val_predictions, val_y)

print("Validation MAE for Random Forest Model: {:,.0f}".format(rf_val_mae))

#Competition
# To improve accuracy, create a new Random Forest model which you will train on all training data
rf_model_on_full_data = RandomForestRegressor()
# fit rf_model_on_full_data on all data from the training data
rf_model_on_full_data.fit(X,y)
# path to file you will use for predictions
test_data_path = '../input/test.csv'
# read test data file using pandas
test_data = pd.read_csv(test_data_path)
# create test_X which comes from test_data but includes only the columns you used for prediction.
# The list of columns is stored in a variable called features
test_X = test_data[features]
# make predictions which we will submit. 
test_preds = rf_model_on_full_data.predict(test_X)
# The lines below shows how to save predictions in format used for competition scoring
output = pd.DataFrame({'Id': test_data.Id,
                       'SalePrice': test_preds})
output.to_csv('submission.csv', index=False)