Type the command below to install Graphviz. There are a couple ways to do this including: installing python-graphviz though Anaconda, installing Graphviz through Homebrew (Mac), installing Graphviz executables from the official site (Windows), and using an online converter on the contents of your dot file to convert it into an image. The problem is that using Graphviz to convert the dot file into an image file (png, jpg, etc) can be difficult. A dot file is a Graphviz representation of a decision tree. The first part of this process involves creating a dot file. I should note that the reason why I am going over Graphviz after covering Matplotlib is that getting this to work can be difficult. In data science, one use of Graphviz is to visualize decision trees. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Note that I edited the file to have text colors correspond to whether they are leaf/terminal nodes or decision nodes using a text editor. ot_tree(clf) ĭecision Tree produced through Graphviz.
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The code below plots a decision tree using scikit-learn.
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Scikit-learn 4-Step Modeling Pattern # Step 1: Import the model you want to use # This was already imported earlier in the notebook so commenting out #from ee import DecisionTreeClassifier # Step 2: Make an instance of the Model clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth = 2, random_state = 0) # Step 3: Train the model on the data clf.fit(X_train, Y_train) # Step 4: Predict labels of unseen (test) data # Not doing this step in the tutorial # clf.predict(X_test) How to Visualize Decision Trees using MatplotlibĪs of scikit-learn version 21.0 (roughly May 2019), Decision Trees can now be plotted with matplotlib using scikit-learn’s ot_tree without relying on the dot library which is a hard-to-install dependency which we will cover later on in the blog post. The colors in the image indicate which variable (X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test) the data from the dataframe df went to for a particular train test split. import pandas as pd from sklearn.datasets import load_iris data = load_iris() df = pd.DataFrame(data.data, columns=data.feature_names) df = data.target The Iris dataset is one of datasets scikit-learn comes with that do not require the downloading of any file from some external website. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from sklearn.datasets import load_iris from sklearn.datasets import load_breast_cancer from ee import DecisionTreeClassifier from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split import pandas as pd import numpy as np from sklearn import tree Load the Dataset The following import statements are what we will use for this section of the tutorial. If this section is not clear, I encourage you to read my Understanding Decision Trees for Classification (Python) tutorial as I go into a lot of detail on how decision trees work and how to use them. In order to visualize decision trees, we need first need to fit a decision tree model using scikit-learn. With that, let’s get started! How to Fit a Decision Tree Model using Scikit-Learn
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Image from my Understanding Decision Trees for Classification (Python) Tutorial.ĭecision trees are a popular supervised learning method for a variety of reasons.