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Constructing the lift curve

The lift curve is an evaluation curve that assesses the performance of your model. It shows how many times more than average the model reaches targets.

To construct this curve, you can use the plot_lift_curve method in the scikitplot module and the matplotlib.pyplot module. As for each model evaluation metric or curve, you need the true target values on the one hand and the predictions on the other hand to construct the cumulative gains curve.

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“Introduction to Predictive Analytics in Python”

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Exercise instructions

  • Import the matplotlib.pyplot module.
  • Import the scikitplot module.
  • Construct the cumulative gains curve, given that the model outputs the values in predictions_test and the true target values are in targets_test.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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# Import the matplotlib.pyplot module 
____ as plt

# Import the scikitplot module
____ as skplt

# Plot the lift curve
skplt.metrics.____(____, ____)
plt.show()
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This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Predictive Analytics in Python

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In this course you'll learn to use and present logistic regression models for making predictions.

Now that you know how to build a good model, you should convince stakeholders to use it by creating appropriate graphs. You will learn how to construct and interpret the cumulative gains curve and lift graph.

Exercise 1: The cumulative gains curveExercise 2: Interpreting the cumulative gains curveExercise 3: Constructing the cumulative gains curveExercise 4: A random modelExercise 5: The lift curveExercise 6: Interpreting the lift curveExercise 7: Constructing the lift curve
Exercise 8: A perfect modelExercise 9: Guiding business to better decisionsExercise 10: Targeting using cumulative gains curveExercise 11: Business case using lift curveExercise 12: Business case using cumulative gains curve

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