Certainly there is a linear regression and machine learning relationship that we will discuss in this section. We’ll take help from Iris Data.
In the previous section we have seen that linear regression is an algorithm based on supervised learning.
The regression task that it performs is nothing but modeling a target prediction based on an independent variable.
It finds out the relationship between variables and the prediction.
Having said that, we presume we can try to make this section as simple as possible. So that a beginner in data science and machine learning can follow what is going on actually.
Firstly, there are two types of supervised learning algorithms.
Classification and regression.
The Iris Dataset is suitable for classification. That means yes, or no. We have discussed it earlier.
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Whether an email moves to the spam folder or not belongs to the classification algorithms.
On the other hand, when we think about a continuous process, we use a regression algorithm.
Think about human heights. As age increases it affects the height.
Therefore we can say that in a linear regression algorithm there is an independent variable and a dependent variable.
If with the increase in independent variable the dependent variable increases, we call it a positive relationship.
On the other hand, if the increase in the independent variable decreases the value of the dependent variable, we call the relationship negative.
It’s a continuous process. Therefore when we plot this relationship in a graph paper, the x axis represents the independent variable.
And the y axis represents the dependent variable.
In such a situation, there could be different points. Right?
Now based on this context, we try to predict which would be the closest data point.
Let’s load the Iris Dataset first by importing the scikit-learn library.
# importing directly from scikit-learn toy datasets
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
# we will learn what is "bunch" object cwhich is ontaining iris dataset and its attributes
iris_data_set = load_iris()
type(iris_data_set)Here goes the output.
sklearn.utils.BunchNow we can print this whole Iris Dataset and see what is there inside.
print(iris_data_set) # we get everythingThe output is quite huge as there are 150 rows and 4 columns.
Moreover there are three categories of Iris flowers which have different petal width and length.
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[6.5, 3. , 5.2, 2. ],
[6.2, 3.4, 5.4, 2.3],
[5.9, 3. , 5.1, 1.8]]), 'target': array([0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]), 'frame': None, 'target_names': array(['setosa', 'versicolor', 'virginica'], dtype='Now we have come to know a few interesting facts about this Iris Dataset.
There are three types of flowers. ‘setosa’, ‘versicolor’, and ‘virginica’.
In addition, they each have a different relationship between petal length and width.
For example, the category ‘setosa’ has a fixed petal width. And the petal length is also not large like the other two categories.
The below image displays something which we were talking about just now.
However, before building a linear regression model we need to know more about the machine learning terminology.
In the coming section, we will discuss this and many more.
So stay tuned and be happy and cheer up.
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