Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Video of the PyCon tutorial on-line!

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Layton
On 14 March 2012 05:01, Olivier Grisel wrote: > Le 13 mars 2012 01:44, Emanuele Olivetti a > écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I guess the correct link of the video is now: > > > http://pyvideo.org/video/622/introduction-to-interactive-predictive-analytics > > or > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5dfo

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] SVC documentation inaccuracy

2012-03-16 Thread Andreas Mueller
On 03/17/2012 01:55 AM, Lars Buitinck wrote: > Op 17 maart 2012 01:30 heeft Andreas het > volgende geschreven: >> If we change the API, I would go for alpha as the current >> "scale_C=True" but optionally provide the "C", which behaves >> like the LibSVM parameter. > You mean we'd have two regular

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] SVC documentation inaccuracy

2012-03-16 Thread Lars Buitinck
Op 17 maart 2012 01:30 heeft Andreas het volgende geschreven: > If we change the API, I would go for alpha as the current > "scale_C=True" but optionally provide the "C", which behaves > like the LibSVM parameter. You mean we'd have two regularization parameters? I'd find that confusing. -- Lar

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Working on python 2 + 3 support with a single codebase

2012-03-16 Thread Andreas
On 03/17/2012 12:15 AM, Olivier Grisel wrote: > Le 15 mars 2012 23:43, Nelle Varoquaux a écrit : > >> Hi Olivier, >> >> On 16 March 2012 02:50, Olivier Grisel wrote: >> >>> Here is a WIP PR: >>> >>> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/702 >>> >>> Any comments? Volunteers

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] SVC documentation inaccuracy

2012-03-16 Thread Andreas
On 03/17/2012 12:40 AM, Olivier Grisel wrote: > Le 16 mars 2012 15:29, Andreas Müller a écrit : > >> On 03/16/2012 11:12 PM, James Bergstra wrote: >> >>> I was also recently bit by this scale_C business. It looks like the >>> decision to make scale_C=True the un-changeable default has al

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] SVC documentation inaccuracy

2012-03-16 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 16 mars 2012 15:29, Andreas Müller a écrit : > On 03/16/2012 11:12 PM, James Bergstra wrote: >> I was also recently bit by this scale_C business. It looks like the >> decision to make scale_C=True the un-changeable default has already >> been made, but when this is done *PLEASE* make this abund

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Working on python 2 + 3 support with a single codebase

2012-03-16 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 15 mars 2012 23:43, Nelle Varoquaux a écrit : > Hi Olivier, > > On 16 March 2012 02:50, Olivier Grisel wrote: >> >> Here is a WIP PR: >> >>  https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/702 >> >> Any comments? Volunteers to help me fix the last broken stuff? > > > I volunteer ! If it is n

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] SVC documentation inaccuracy

2012-03-16 Thread Andreas Müller
On 03/16/2012 11:12 PM, James Bergstra wrote: > I was also recently bit by this scale_C business. It looks like the > decision to make scale_C=True the un-changeable default has already > been made, but when this is done *PLEASE* make this abundantly clear > in the documentation... my understanding

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] SVC documentation inaccuracy

2012-03-16 Thread James Bergstra
I was also recently bit by this scale_C business. It looks like the decision to make scale_C=True the un-changeable default has already been made, but when this is done *PLEASE* make this abundantly clear in the documentation... my understanding was that the C in the SVM equation means the thing th

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] NMF implementation

2012-03-16 Thread Jacob VanderPlas
Hi Olivier, The code looks very well written. I think it would fit well in scikit-learn. The API would have to be modified to fit the scikit-learn format. You can read more about that at the developers' page: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/index.html It will also require some un

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] NMF implementation

2012-03-16 Thread Olivier Mangin
On 03/15/2012 06:41 PM, Olivier Grisel wrote: Le 13 mars 2012 02:32, Olivier Mangin a écrit : Hello, Since I am currently using NMF for my robotics research, I have an implementation of some algorithms from [1]_ that could extend scikit-learn current implementation. More precisely the current

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Is there a function for convenient binarization of categorical data?

2012-03-16 Thread Lars Buitinck
Op 16 maart 2012 12:34 heeft Conrad Lee het volgende geschreven: > If so, then a couple more questions remain.  Does scikit-learn support > structured arrays, or do those need to be converted to 2-d arrays?  Is it > important for some of the models that the booleans be represented a as > floats ra

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Is there a function for convenient binarization of categorical data?

2012-03-16 Thread Conrad Lee
> > I just added a snippet that works with structured arrays to > http://scipy-central.org/: > > > http://scipy-central.org/item/35/1/convert-categorical-data-in-a-structure-numpy-array-to-boolean-fields > Great Warren, that's exactly what I was looking for. Now there's the question: should somet