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%matplotlib inline
Nearest Neighbors Classification¶
Sample usage of Nearest Neighbors classification. It will plot the decision boundaries for each class.
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print(__doc__)
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap
from sklearn import neighbors, datasets
n_neighbors = 15
# import some data to play with
iris = datasets.load_iris()
# we only take the first two features. We could avoid this ugly
# slicing by using a two-dim dataset
X = iris.data[:, :2]
y = iris.target
h = .02 # step size in the mesh
# Create color maps
cmap_light = ListedColormap(['orange', 'cyan', 'cornflowerblue'])
cmap_bold = ['darkorange', 'c', 'darkblue']
for weights in ['uniform', 'distance']:
# we create an instance of Neighbours Classifier and fit the data.
clf = neighbors.KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors, weights=weights)
clf.fit(X, y)
# Plot the decision boundary. For that, we will assign a color to each
# point in the mesh [x_min, x_max]x[y_min, y_max].
x_min, x_max = X[:, 0].min() - 1, X[:, 0].max() + 1
y_min, y_max = X[:, 1].min() - 1, X[:, 1].max() + 1
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, h),
np.arange(y_min, y_max, h))
Z = clf.predict(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()])
# Put the result into a color plot
Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape)
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
plt.contourf(xx, yy, Z, cmap=cmap_light)
# Plot also the training points
sns.scatterplot(x=X[:, 0], y=X[:, 1], hue=iris.target_names[y],
palette=cmap_bold, alpha=1.0, edgecolor="black")
plt.xlim(xx.min(), xx.max())
plt.ylim(yy.min(), yy.max())
plt.title("3-Class classification (k = %i, weights = '%s')"
% (n_neighbors, weights))
plt.xlabel(iris.feature_names[0])
plt.ylabel(iris.feature_names[1])
plt.show()