Template Credit: Adapted from a template made available by Dr. Jason Brownlee of Machine Learning Mastery.
SUMMARY: The purpose of this project is to construct a predictive model using various machine learning algorithms and to document the end-to-end steps using a template. The MiniBooNE Particle Identification dataset is a binary classification situation where we are trying to predict one of the two possible outcomes.
INTRODUCTION: This dataset is taken from the MiniBooNE experiment and is used to distinguish electron neutrinos (signal) from muon neutrinos (background). The data file is set up as follows. The first line is the number of signal events followed by the number of background events. The records with the signal events come first, followed by the background events. Each line, after the first line, has the 50 particle ID variables for one event.
For this iteration, we will leverage TPOT, the automated machine learning tool got Python, that optimizes machine learning pipelines using genetic programming.
ANALYSIS: The baseline performance of the machine learning algorithms achieved the best accuracy of 91.11% after generation one. After generation 20, Gradient Boosting turned in the top overall result and achieved an accuracy metric of 92.44%. Furthermore, the Gradient Boosting algorithm processed the testing dataset with an accuracy of 92.83%, which was even better than the prediction result from the training data.
CONCLUSION: For this iteration, the Gradient Boosting algorithm achieved the best overall results using the training and test datasets. For this dataset, Gradient Boosting should be considered for further modeling.
Dataset Used: MiniBooNE Particle Identification Data Set
Dataset ML Model: Binary classification with numerical attributes
Dataset Reference: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/MiniBooNE+particle+identification
The HTML formatted report can be found here on GitHub.