Mastering Python Data Analysis

Seeds classification

We will now look at three main groups of classification (learning) models: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Nearest Neighbor, and Random Forest. SVM simply divides the space in N regions, separated by a boundary. The boundary can be allowed to have different shapes, for example, there is a linear boundary or quadratic boundary. The Nearest Neighbor classification identifies the k-nearest neighbors and classifies the current data point depending on what class the k-nearest neighbors belong to. The Random Forest classifier is a decision tree learning method, which, in simple terms, creates rules from the given training data to be able to classify new data. A set of if-statements in a row is what gives it the name decision tree. ...