.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_ensemble_plot_forest_iris.py: ==================================================================== Plot the decision surfaces of ensembles of trees on the iris dataset ==================================================================== Plot the decision surfaces of forests of randomized trees trained on pairs of features of the iris dataset. This plot compares the decision surfaces learned by a decision tree classifier (first column), by a random forest classifier (second column), by an extra- trees classifier (third column) and by an AdaBoost classifier (fourth column). In the first row, the classifiers are built using the sepal width and the sepal length features only, on the second row using the petal length and sepal length only, and on the third row using the petal width and the petal length only. In descending order of quality, when trained (outside of this example) on all 4 features using 30 estimators and scored using 10 fold cross validation, we see:: ExtraTreesClassifier() # 0.95 score RandomForestClassifier() # 0.94 score AdaBoost(DecisionTree(max_depth=3)) # 0.94 score DecisionTree(max_depth=None) # 0.94 score Increasing `max_depth` for AdaBoost lowers the standard deviation of the scores (but the average score does not improve). See the console's output for further details about each model. In this example you might try to: 1) vary the ``max_depth`` for the ``DecisionTreeClassifier`` and ``AdaBoostClassifier``, perhaps try ``max_depth=3`` for the ``DecisionTreeClassifier`` or ``max_depth=None`` for ``AdaBoostClassifier`` 2) vary ``n_estimators`` It is worth noting that RandomForests and ExtraTrees can be fitted in parallel on many cores as each tree is built independently of the others. AdaBoost's samples are built sequentially and so do not use multiple cores. .. image:: /auto_examples/ensemble/images/sphx_glr_plot_forest_iris_001.png :align: center .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out:: DecisionTree with features [0, 1] has a score of 0.926666666667 RandomForest with 30 estimators with features [0, 1] has a score of 0.926666666667 ExtraTrees with 30 estimators with features [0, 1] has a score of 0.926666666667 AdaBoost with 30 estimators with features [0, 1] has a score of 0.84 DecisionTree with features [0, 2] has a score of 0.993333333333 RandomForest with 30 estimators with features [0, 2] has a score of 0.993333333333 ExtraTrees with 30 estimators with features [0, 2] has a score of 0.993333333333 AdaBoost with 30 estimators with features [0, 2] has a score of 0.993333333333 DecisionTree with features [2, 3] has a score of 0.993333333333 RandomForest with 30 estimators with features [2, 3] has a score of 0.993333333333 ExtraTrees with 30 estimators with features [2, 3] has a score of 0.993333333333 AdaBoost with 30 estimators with features [2, 3] has a score of 0.993333333333 | .. code-block:: python print(__doc__) import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from sklearn import clone from sklearn.datasets import load_iris from sklearn.ensemble import (RandomForestClassifier, ExtraTreesClassifier, AdaBoostClassifier) from sklearn.externals.six.moves import xrange from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier # Parameters n_classes = 3 n_estimators = 30 plot_colors = "ryb" cmap = plt.cm.RdYlBu plot_step = 0.02 # fine step width for decision surface contours plot_step_coarser = 0.5 # step widths for coarse classifier guesses RANDOM_SEED = 13 # fix the seed on each iteration # Load data iris = load_iris() plot_idx = 1 models = [DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=None), RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=n_estimators), ExtraTreesClassifier(n_estimators=n_estimators), AdaBoostClassifier(DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=3), n_estimators=n_estimators)] for pair in ([0, 1], [0, 2], [2, 3]): for model in models: # We only take the two corresponding features X = iris.data[:, pair] y = iris.target # Shuffle idx = np.arange(X.shape[0]) np.random.seed(RANDOM_SEED) np.random.shuffle(idx) X = X[idx] y = y[idx] # Standardize mean = X.mean(axis=0) std = X.std(axis=0) X = (X - mean) / std # Train clf = clone(model) clf = model.fit(X, y) scores = clf.score(X, y) # Create a title for each column and the console by using str() and # slicing away useless parts of the string model_title = str(type(model)).split(".")[-1][:-2][:-len("Classifier")] model_details = model_title if hasattr(model, "estimators_"): model_details += " with {} estimators".format(len(model.estimators_)) print( model_details + " with features", pair, "has a score of", scores ) plt.subplot(3, 4, plot_idx) if plot_idx <= len(models): # Add a title at the top of each column plt.title(model_title) # Now plot the decision boundary using a fine mesh as input to a # filled contour plot x_min, x_max = X[:, 0].min() - 1, X[:, 0].max() + 1 y_min, y_max = X[:, 1].min() - 1, X[:, 1].max() + 1 xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, plot_step), np.arange(y_min, y_max, plot_step)) # Plot either a single DecisionTreeClassifier or alpha blend the # decision surfaces of the ensemble of classifiers if isinstance(model, DecisionTreeClassifier): Z = model.predict(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()]) Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape) cs = plt.contourf(xx, yy, Z, cmap=cmap) else: # Choose alpha blend level with respect to the number of estimators # that are in use (noting that AdaBoost can use fewer estimators # than its maximum if it achieves a good enough fit early on) estimator_alpha = 1.0 / len(model.estimators_) for tree in model.estimators_: Z = tree.predict(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()]) Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape) cs = plt.contourf(xx, yy, Z, alpha=estimator_alpha, cmap=cmap) # Build a coarser grid to plot a set of ensemble classifications # to show how these are different to what we see in the decision # surfaces. These points are regularly space and do not have a black outline xx_coarser, yy_coarser = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, plot_step_coarser), np.arange(y_min, y_max, plot_step_coarser)) Z_points_coarser = model.predict(np.c_[xx_coarser.ravel(), yy_coarser.ravel()]).reshape(xx_coarser.shape) cs_points = plt.scatter(xx_coarser, yy_coarser, s=15, c=Z_points_coarser, cmap=cmap, edgecolors="none") # Plot the training points, these are clustered together and have a # black outline for i, c in zip(xrange(n_classes), plot_colors): idx = np.where(y == i) plt.scatter(X[idx, 0], X[idx, 1], c=c, label=iris.target_names[i], cmap=cmap) plot_idx += 1 # move on to the next plot in sequence plt.suptitle("Classifiers on feature subsets of the Iris dataset") plt.axis("tight") plt.show() **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 10.421 seconds) .. container:: sphx-glr-download **Download Python source code:** :download:`plot_forest_iris.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download **Download IPython notebook:** :download:`plot_forest_iris.ipynb `