How to visualize classification model performance using Yellowbrick
Whether we are iterating over performance models or presenting to clients, data scientists utilize visualizations regularly. While there are many visualization libraries available to us, Yellowbrick serves as a natural extension to scikit-learn’s modeling process and assists with model interpretation and tuning.
“Visualization gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had.”
— Ben Schneiderman
This post is to serve as an introduction to Yellowbrick and display a few ways in which it can simplify the process of visualizing the results of various classification models.
I will be using Pandas and NumPy to assist with data frame manipulation and…
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