Compare classifiers

compare_classifiers.py

# Compare Classifiers
from matplotlib import pyplot
from sklearn.model_selection import KFold
from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
from sklearn.discriminant_analysis import LinearDiscriminantAnalysis
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.svm import SVC

models = []
models.append(('LR', LogisticRegression()))
models.append(('LDA', LinearDiscriminantAnalysis()))
models.append(('KNN', KNeighborsClassifier()))
models.append(('CART', DecisionTreeClassifier()))
models.append(('NB', GaussianNB()))
models.append(('SVM', SVC()))

results = []
names = []
scoring = 'accuracy'
for name, model in models:
	kfold = KFold(n_splits=10, random_state=7)
	cv_results = cross_val_score(model, X, Y, cv=kfold, scoring=scoring)
	results.append(cv_results)
	names.append(name)
	msg = "%s: %f (%f)" % (name, cv_results.mean(), cv_results.std())
	print(msg)

fig = pyplot.figure()
fig.suptitle('Algorithm Comparison')
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
pyplot.boxplot(results)
ax.set_xticklabels(names)
pyplot.show()

Note that this snippet originates from the Machine Learning Mastery book.