rlence86
4/25/2019 - 11:53 AM

Full training example

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

# Read the data
X_full = pd.read_csv('../input/train.csv', index_col='Id')
X_test_full = pd.read_csv('../input/test.csv', index_col='Id')

# Remove rows with missing target, separate target from predictors
X_full.dropna(axis=0, subset=['SalePrice'], inplace=True)
y = X_full.SalePrice
X_full.drop(['SalePrice'], axis=1, inplace=True)

# Break off validation set from training data
X_train_full, X_valid_full, y_train, y_valid = train_test_split(X_full, y, 
                                                                train_size=0.8, test_size=0.2,
                                                                random_state=0)

# "Cardinality" means the number of unique values in a column
# Select categorical columns with relatively low cardinality (convenient but arbitrary)
categorical_cols = [cname for cname in X_train_full.columns if
                    X_train_full[cname].nunique() < 10 and 
                    X_train_full[cname].dtype == "object"]

# Select numerical columns
numerical_cols = [cname for cname in X_train_full.columns if 
                X_train_full[cname].dtype in ['int64', 'float64']]

# Keep selected columns only
my_cols = categorical_cols + numerical_cols
X_train = X_train_full[my_cols].copy()
X_valid = X_valid_full[my_cols].copy()
X_test = X_test_full[my_cols].copy()

from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor
from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_error

# Preprocessing for numerical data
numerical_transformer = SimpleImputer(strategy='constant')

# Preprocessing for categorical data
categorical_transformer = Pipeline(steps=[
    ('imputer', SimpleImputer(strategy='most_frequent')),
    ('onehot', OneHotEncoder(handle_unknown='ignore'))
])

# Bundle preprocessing for numerical and categorical data
preprocessor = ColumnTransformer(
    transformers=[
        ('num', numerical_transformer, numerical_cols),
        ('cat', categorical_transformer, categorical_cols)
    ])

# Define model
model = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=100, random_state=0)

# Bundle preprocessing and modeling code in a pipeline
clf = Pipeline(steps=[('preprocessor', preprocessor),
                      ('model', model)
                     ])

# Preprocessing of training data, fit model 
clf.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Preprocessing of validation data, get predictions
preds = clf.predict(X_valid)

print('MAE:', mean_absolute_error(y_valid, preds))