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"# Course Notes for Learning Intelligent Systems"
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"Department of Telematic Engineering Systems, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, © Carlos A. Iglesias"
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"## [Introduction to Machine Learning II](3_0_0_Intro_ML_2.ipynb)"
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"# Table of Contents\n",
"\n",
"* [The Titanic dataset](#The-Titanic-dataset)\n",
"* [Reading Data](#Reading-Data)\n",
"* [Reading Data from a File](#Reading-Data-from-a-File)"
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"# The Titanic dataset"
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"In this session we will work with the Titanic dataset. This dataset is provided by [Kaggle](http://www.kaggle.com). Kaggle is a crowdsourcing platform that organizes competitions where researchers and companies post their data and users compete to obtain the best models.\n",
"\n",
"![Titanic](images/titanic.jpg)\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"The main objective is predicting which passengers survived the sinking of the Titanic.\n",
"\n",
"The data is available [here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic/data). There are two files, one for training ([train.csv](files/data-titanic/train.csv)) and another file for testing [test.csv](files/data-titanic/test.csv). A local copy has been included in this notebook under the folder *data-titanic*.\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"Here follows a description of the variables.\n",
"\n",
"|Variable | Description| Values|\n",
"|-------------------------------|\n",
"| survival| Survival| (0 = No; 1 = Yes)|\n",
"|Pclass |Name | |\n",
"|Sex |Sex | male, female|\n",
"|Age |Age|\n",
"|SibSp |Number of Siblings/Spouses Aboard||\n",
"|Parch |Number of Parents/Children Aboard||\n",
"|Ticket|Ticket Number||\n",
"|Fare |Passenger Fare||\n",
"|Cabin |Cabin||\n",
"|Embarked |Port of Embarkation| (C = Cherbourg; Q = Queenstown; S = Southampton)|\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"The definitions used for SibSp and Parch are:\n",
"* *Sibling*: Brother, Sister, Stepbrother, or Stepsister of Passenger Aboard Titanic\n",
"* *Spouse*: Husband or Wife of Passenger Aboard Titanic (Mistresses and Fiances Ignored)\n",
"* *Parent*: Mother or Father of Passenger Aboard Titanic\n",
"* *Child*: Son, Daughter, Stepson, or Stepdaughter of Passenger Aboard Titanic"
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"# Reading Data"
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"In the previous dataset we load a bundle dataset in scikit-learn. In this notebook we are going to learn how to read from a file or a url using the Pandas library."
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"## Reading Data from a File"
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"import numpy as np\n",
"import pandas as pd\n",
"from pandas import Series, DataFrame\n",
"\n",
"df = pd.read_csv('data-titanic/train.csv')\n",
"df"
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"# we can get the number of samples and features\n",
"df.shape"
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"#I can read only a number of rows and tell where the header is, among other options.\n",
"df = df = pd.read_csv('data-titanic/train.csv', header=0, nrows=5)\n",
"df"
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"Pandas provides methods for reading other formats, such as Excel (*read_excel()*), JSON (*read_json()*), or HTML (*read_html()*), look at the [documentation](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/api.html#input-output) for more details."
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"## Reading data from a URL"
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"import pandas as pd\n",
"#We get a URL with raw content (not HTML one)\n",
"url = \"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gsi-upm/sitc/master/ml2/data-titanic/train.csv\"\n",
"df = pd.read_csv(url)\n",
"df"
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"An alternative option is reading the file with the library *requests* and then use *pandas*."
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"# First we open the file\n",
"import pandas as pd\n",
"import io\n",
"import requests\n",
"url = \"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gsi-upm/sitc/master/ml2/data-titanic/train.csv\"\n",
"s = requests.get(url, stream=True).content\n",
"#Print the first 320 characters for understanding how it works\n",
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"## References"
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"* [Pandas API input-output](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/api.html#input-output)\n",
"* [Pandas API - pandas.read_csv](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_csv.html)\n",
"* [DataFrame](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/dsintro.html)\n",
"* [An introduction to NumPy and Scipy](https://sites.engineering.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/numpy.pdf)\n"
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"source": [
"## Licence"
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"The notebook is freely licensed under under the [Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). \n",
"\n",
"© Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid."
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