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Machine Learning Machine Learning Basics Writing a Classifier Making Predictions with a Classifier

Stephen Cole
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Stephen Cole
Courses Plus Student 15,809 Points
Posted by Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Courses Plus Student 15,809 Points

Fit predicts either versicolor or setosa. There's never a mix.

This always predicts setosa:

print(classifier.predict([[5.1,3.5,1.4,0.8]]))

This always predicts versicolor:

print(classifier.predict([[5.1,3.5,1.4,0.9]]))

I even tried this:

for i in range(0,1000):
    print(list(iris.target_names[classifier.predict([[5.1,3.5,1.4,0.9]])]))

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Either the classifier is very, very certain that is versicolor/setosa, or there is a bug in the classifier. I wonder which is more likely... :confused: (Probably the first!)