Predicting Student Admissions with Neural Networks
# Importing pandas and numpy
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
# Reading the csv file into a pandas DataFrame
data = pd.read_csv('student_data.csv')
# Printing out the first 10 rows of our data
data[:10]
# Importing matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
# Function to help us plot
def plot_points(data):
X = np.array(data[["gre","gpa"]])
y = np.array(data["admit"])
admitted = X[np.argwhere(y==1)]
rejected = X[np.argwhere(y==0)]
plt.scatter([s[0][0] for s in rejected], [s[0][1] for s in rejected], s = 25, color = 'red', edgecolor = 'k')
plt.scatter([s[0][0] for s in admitted], [s[0][1] for s in admitted], s = 25, color = 'cyan', edgecolor = 'k')
plt.xlabel('Test (GRE)')
plt.ylabel('Grades (GPA)')
# Plotting the points
plot_points(data)
plt.show()
Roughly, it looks like the students with high scores in the grades and test passed, while the ones with low scores didn't, but the data is not as nicely separable as we hoped it would. Maybe it would help to take the rank into account? Let's make 4 plots, each one for each rank.
# Separating the ranks
data_rank1 = data[data["rank"]==1]
data_rank2 = data[data["rank"]==2]
data_rank3 = data[data["rank"]==3]
data_rank4 = data[data["rank"]==4]
# Plotting the graphs
plot_points(data_rank1)
plt.title("Rank 1")
plt.show()
plot_points(data_rank2)
plt.title("Rank 2")
plt.show()
plot_points(data_rank3)
plt.title("Rank 3")
plt.show()
plot_points(data_rank4)
plt.title("Rank 4")
plt.show()
This looks more promising, as it seems that the lower the rank, the higher the acceptance rate. Let's use the rank as one of our inputs. In order to do this, we should one-hot encode it.
TODO: One-hot encoding the rank
Use the get_dummies function in pandas in order to one-hot encode the data.
Hint: To drop a column, it's suggested that you use one_hot_data.drop( ).
# TODO: Make dummy variables for rank and concat existing columns
one_hot_data = pd.concat([data, pd.get_dummies(data['rank'], prefix='rank')], axis=1)
# TODO: Drop the previous rank column
one_hot_data = one_hot_data.drop('rank', axis=1)
# Print the first 10 rows of our data
one_hot_data[:10]
TODO: Scaling the data
The next step is to scale the data. We notice that the range for grades is 1.0-4.0, whereas the range for test scores is roughly 200-800, which is much larger. This means our data is skewed, and that makes it hard for a neural network to handle. Let's fit our two features into a range of 0-1, by dividing the grades by 4.0, and the test score by 800.
# Making a copy of our data
processed_data = one_hot_data[:]
# TODO: Scale the columns
processed_data['gre'] = processed_data['gre']/800
processed_data['gpa'] = processed_data['gpa']/4.0
# Printing the first 10 rows of our procesed data
processed_data[:10]
In order to test our algorithm, we'll split the data into a Training and a Testing set. The size of the testing set will be 10% of the total data.
sample = np.random.choice(processed_data.index, size=int(len(processed_data)*0.9), replace=False)
train_data, test_data = processed_data.iloc[sample], processed_data.drop(sample)
print("Number of training samples is", len(train_data))
print("Number of testing samples is", len(test_data))
print(train_data[:10])
print(test_data[:10])
features = train_data.drop('admit', axis=1)
targets = train_data['admit']
features_test = test_data.drop('admit', axis=1)
targets_test = test_data['admit']
print(features[:10])
print(targets[:10])
# Activation (sigmoid) function
def sigmoid(x):
return 1 / (1 + np.exp(-x))
def sigmoid_prime(x):
return sigmoid(x) * (1-sigmoid(x))
def error_formula(y, output):
return - y*np.log(output) - (1 - y) * np.log(1-output)
# TODO: Write the error term formula
def error_term_formula(x, y, output):
return (y- output)*sigmoid_prime(x)
# Neural Network hyperparameters
epochs = 10000
learnrate = 0.4
# Training function
def train_nn(features, targets, epochs, learnrate):
# Use to same seed to make debugging easier
np.random.seed(42)
n_records, n_features = features.shape
last_loss = None
# Initialize weights
weights = np.random.normal(scale=1 / n_features**.5, size=n_features)
for e in range(epochs):
del_w = np.zeros(weights.shape)
for x, y in zip(features.values, targets):
# Loop through all records, x is the input, y is the target
# Activation of the output unit
# Notice we multiply the inputs and the weights here
# rather than storing h as a separate variable
output = sigmoid(np.dot(x, weights))
# The error, the target minus the network output
error = error_formula(y, output)
# The error term
error_term = error_term_formula(x, y, output)
# The gradient descent step, the error times the gradient times the inputs
del_w += error_term * x
# Update the weights here. The learning rate times the
# change in weights, divided by the number of records to average
weights += learnrate * del_w / n_records
# Printing out the mean square error on the training set
if e % (epochs / 10) == 0:
out = sigmoid(np.dot(features, weights))
loss = np.mean((out - targets) ** 2)
print("Epoch:", e)
if last_loss and last_loss < loss:
print("Train loss: ", loss, " WARNING - Loss Increasing")
else:
print("Train loss: ", loss)
last_loss = loss
print("=========")
print("Finished training!")
return weights
weights = train_nn(features, targets, epochs, learnrate)
# Calculate accuracy on test data
test_out = sigmoid(np.dot(features_test, weights))
predictions = test_out > 0.5
accuracy = np.mean(predictions == targets_test)
print("Prediction accuracy: {:.3f}".format(accuracy))