The document summarizes an Analytics Vidhya meetup event. It discusses that the meetups will occur once a month, with the next one on May 24th. It aims to provide networking and learning around data science, big data, machine learning and IoT. It introduces the volunteer organizers and outlines the agenda, which includes an introduction, discussing the model building lifecycle, data exploration techniques, and modeling techniques like logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and SVMs. It provides details on practicing these techniques by predicting survival on the Titanic dataset.

2. Thanks Great Lakes for being a lovely host…
• Premier Management Institute
• PGPBA
• Brochures & pads provided
• WiFi Connectivity

3. About Analytics Vidhya

5. First things first:
• Meetup frequency – Once every month
• Next meetup – 24th May 2015
• Aim to provide best networking and learning platform in Delhi NCR
• Areas of Interest – Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning,
Internet of Things

6. Meet Your Volunteers
Kunal
Data Science Evangelist,
(Growth) Hacker, Blogger,
Husband, Father
Sunil
Blogger, Problem solver,
data scientist, Fitness
enthu
Manish
Avid learner, explorer,
startup guy!

7. Agenda
• Introduction
• Model building – life cycle
• Data Exploration and Feature Engineering methods
• Talk about modelling Techniques like
• Logistic Regression
• Decision Tree
• Random Forest
• SVM
• Predict the survival on the Titanic

8. Introduction
• Name
• Experience in Data Science
• Current Company
• Are you proficient with (SAS/ R/ Python)?

9. Team creation
• Look for diversity in experience
• Hopefully common toolset, but complementary can also work
• Competing against each other

10. Team Formation

11. A few ground rules for today
• This is not a tutorial – you are expected to solve this problem yourself
• We are here to help you, organize your thoughts and to make sure you
are going in the right direction.
• Good question to ask:
• While trying Logistic regression in R, I am facing following error?
• Bad question to ask:
• Help me understand what is Logistic Regression!

13. • Register on DataHack.io
• One login for each participant
• Password would be mailed upon registration
• Registration on Kaggle.com

14. Model building – life cycle

15. Problem for the day

16. Hypothesis generation
• In your groups, list down all possible variables, which might influence the
chances of survival of a passenger
• Download the dataset from Kaggle
• Next, look at the dataset and see which variables are available
Make sure you always do this in this order

17. Data Exploration & Feature Engineering
• Import data set
• Variable identification
• Univariate, Bivariate and Multivariate analysis
• Identify and Treat missing and outlier values
• Create new variables or transform existing variables

18. Dataset Detail
• PassengerId :- Unique ID to every passenger
• Survived :- Survival (0=No, 1=Yes)
• Pclass:- Passenger Class (1=1st, 2=2nd, 3=3rd )
• Name :- Name
• Sex :- Male/ Female
• Age :- Age
• SibSp :- Number of Siblings / Spouses Aboard
• Parch :- Number of Parents / Children Abroad
• Ticket :- Ticket Number
• Fare :- Passenger Fare
• Cabin :- Cabin
• Embarked :- Port of Embarkation (C=Cherbourg, Q=Queenstown, S=Southampton)

19. Are you a newbie, refer to these guides:
• Import data set (SAS, Python, R)
• Variable identification (Methods, SAS, Python, R)
• Univariate, Bivariate and Multivariate analysis (Methods, SAS, Python, R)
• Identify and Treat missing and outlier values (Missing, Outlier, SAS, Python, R1, R2)
• Create new variables or transform existing variables (Methods, SAS, Python, R1)

20. Practice
Explore the Titanic data set and share your inferences with the group

21. Break

22. Modelling Techniques – Logistic Regression
• Logistic regression is a form of regression analysis in which the outcome variable is binary or
dichotomous
• Used when the focus on whether or not an event occurred, rather than when it occurred
• Here, Instead of modelling the outcome, Y, directly, the method models the log odds(Y) using the
logistic function
• Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and logistic regression all are special cases of General Linear Model
(GLM)
• The probability of success falls between 0 and 1 for all possible values of X

23. Linear & Logistic Regression
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Age
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CHDProbability(p)
Predictor (x)
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Age (yrs.)
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LengthofStay(days)
Predictor(X)
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Y=aX+b

24. Logit Transformation

25. Logit is Directly related to Odds
• The logistic model can be written as:
• This implies that the odds for success can be expressed as:
• This relationship is the key to interpreting the coefficients in a logistic regression model !!
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26. Modelling Techniques – Decision Tree
• Decision tree is a type of supervised learning algorithm
• It works for both categorical and continuous input and output variables
• It is a classification technique that split the population or sample into two or more homogeneous
sets (or sub-populations) based on most significant splitter / differentiator in input variables

27. Decision Tree - Example

28. Types of Decision Tree
• Binary Variable Decision Tree: Decision Tree which has binary target variable then it called as Binary
Variable Decision Tree. Example:- In above scenario of student problem, where the target variable
was “Student will play cricket or not” i.e. YES or NO.
• Continuous Variable Decision Tree: Decision Tree has continuous target variable then it is called as
Continuous Variable Decision Tree.

29. Decision Tree - Terminology

30. Decision Tree – Advantages/ Disadvantages
Advantages:
• Easy to understand
• Useful in data exploration
• Less Data Cleaning required
• Data type is not a constraint
Disadvantages:
• Overfit
• Not fit for continuous variables
• Not Sensitive to Skewed distributions

31. Modelling Techniques – Random Forest
• “Random Forest“ is an algorithm to perform very intensive calculations.
• Random forest is like a bootstrapping algorithm with Decision tree (CART) model.
• Random forest gives much more accurate predictions when compared to simple CART/CHAID or
regression models in many scenarios.
• It captures the variance of several input variables at the same time and enables high number of
observations to participate in the prediction.
• A different subset of the training data and subset of variables are selected for each tree
• Remaining training data are used to estimate error and variable importance

32. Random Forest – Advantages/ Disadvantages
Advantages:
• No need for pruning trees
• Accuracy and variable importance generated automatically
• Not very sensitive to outliers in training data
• Easy to set parameters
Disadvantages:
• Over fitting is not a problem
• It is black box, rules behind model building can not be explained

33. Modelling Techniques – SVM
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• It is a classification technique.
• Support Vectors are simply the co-ordinates of individual observation
• Support Vector Machine is a frontier which best segregates the one
class from other
• Solving SVMs is a quadratic programming problem
• Seen by many as the most successful current text classification
method
Sec. 15.1
Support vectors

34. Case Study
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Sec. 15.1
We have a population of 50%-50% Males and
Females. Here, we want to create some set of rules
which will guide us the gender class for rest of the
population.
The blue circles in the plot represent females and
green squares represents male.
 Males in our population have a higher average
height.
 Females in our population have longer scalp
hairs.

35. Case Study – How to find right SVM
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Sec. 15.1
Here we have three possible frontiers. Decide which
one is best.
Methods:
• Find the minimum distance of the frontier from
closest support vector (this can belong to any
class).
• Choose the frontier with the maximum distance
from the closest support vector. In this case, it is
black frontier with 15 unit distance.

36. Predict survival on the Titanic
Perform prediction for survival on the Titanic

37. Python Resources:
Python:
• http://www.bigdataexaminer.com/dealing-with-unbalanced-classes-svm-random-forests-and-
decision-trees-in-python/
• http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/justmarkham/gadsdc1/blob/master/logistic_assignment/kevin
_logistic_sklearn.ipynb
• http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html
• http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/tree.html
• http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/random-forests-in-python.html

38. R Resources:
R:
• http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/dae/logit.htm
• http://www.cookbook-r.com/Statistical_analysis/Logistic_regression/
• http://www.rdatamining.com/examples/decision-tree
• http://www.statmethods.net/advstats/cart.html
• http://www.cair.org/conferences/cair2013/pres/58_Headstrom.pdf
• http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/comparing-random-forests-in-python-and-r.html
• http://www.louisaslett.com/Courses/Data_Mining/ST4003-Lab7-Introduction_to_Support_Vector_Machines.pdf
• http://thinktostart.com/build-a-spam-filter-with-r/
• http://cbio.ensmp.fr/~jvert/svn/tutorials/practical/svmbasic/svmbasic_notes.pdf

39. Thanks