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1 Use ColumnTransformer to apply different preprocessing to different columns
2 Seven ways to select columns using ColumnTransformer
3 What is the difference between "fit" and "transform"?
4 Use "fit_transform" on training data, but "transform" (only) on testing/new data
5 Four reasons to use scikit-learn (not pandas) for ML preprocessing
6 Encode categorical features using OneHotEncoder or OrdinalEncoder
7 Handle unknown categories with OneHotEncoder by encoding them as zeros
8 Use Pipeline to chain together multiple steps
9 Add a missing indicator to encode "missingness" as a feature
10 Set a "random_state" to make your code reproducible
11 Impute missing values using KNNImputer or IterativeImputer
12 What is the difference between Pipeline and make_pipeline?
13 Examine the intermediate steps in a Pipeline
14 HistGradientBoostingClassifier natively supports missing values
15 Three reasons not to use drop='first' with OneHotEncoder
16 Use cross_val_score and GridSearchCV on a Pipeline
17 Try RandomizedSearchCV if GridSearchCV is taking too long
18 Display GridSearchCV or RandomizedSearchCV results in a DataFrame
19 Important tuning parameters for LogisticRegression
20 Plot a confusion matrix
21 Compare multiple ROC curves in a single plot
22 Use the correct methods for each type of Pipeline
23 Display the intercept and coefficients for a linear model
24 Visualize a decision tree two different ways
25 Prune a decision tree to avoid overfitting
26 Use stratified sampling with train_test_split
27 Two ways to impute missing values for a categorical feature
28 Save a model or Pipeline using joblib
29 Vectorize two text columns in a ColumnTransformer
30 Four ways to examine the steps of a Pipeline
31 Shuffle your dataset when using cross_val_score
32 Use AUC to evaluate multiclass problems
33 Use FunctionTransformer to convert functions into transformers
34 Add feature selection to a Pipeline
35 Don't use .values when passing a pandas object to scikit-learn
36 Most parameters should be passed as keyword arguments
37 Create an interactive diagram of a Pipeline in Jupyter
38 Get the feature names output by a ColumnTransformer
39 Load a toy dataset into a DataFrame
40 Estimators only print parameters that have been changed
41 Drop the first category from binary features (only) with OneHotEncoder
42 Passthrough some columns and drop others in a ColumnTransformer
43 Use OrdinalEncoder instead of OneHotEncoder with tree-based models
44 Speed up GridSearchCV using parallel processing
45 Create feature interactions using PolynomialFeatures
46 Ensemble multiple models using VotingClassifer or VotingRegressor
47 Tune the parameters of a VotingClassifer or VotingRegressor
48 Access part of a Pipeline using slicing
49 Tune multiple models simultaneously with GridSearchCV
50 Adapt this pattern to solve many Machine Learning problems

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Hi! I'm Kevin Markham, the founder of Data School. I've been teaching data science in Python since 2014. I create these tips because I love using scikit-learn and I want to help others use it more effectively.

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