Model comparison warmup

In this exercise, you will run a basic comparison of the four categories of outcomes between MLPs and Random Forests using a confusion matrix. This is in preparation for an analysis of all the models we have covered. Doing this warm-up exercise will allow you to compare and contrast the implementation of these models and their evaluation for CTR prediction.

In the workspace, we have training and testing splits for X and y as X_train, X_test for X and y_train, y_test for y respectively. Remember, X contains our engineered features with user, device, and site details whereas y contains the target (whether the ad was clicked). X has already been scaled using a StandardScaler(). For future ad CTR prediction models, the setup will be analogous.

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Predicting CTR with Machine Learning in Python

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create the list of models in the order below
names = ['Random Forest', 'Multi-Layer Perceptron']
classifiers = [RandomForestClassifier(), 
               ____(____ = (10, ),
                             ____ = 40)]

# Produce a confusion matrix for all classifiers
for name, classifier in zip(names, classifiers):
  print("Evaluating classifier: %s" %(name))
  classifier.fit(____, ____)
  y_pred = classifier.predict(____)
  conf_matrix = confusion_matrix(____, ____)
  print(conf_matrix)

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Chances are you’re on this page because you clicked a link. In this chapter, you’ll learn why click-through-rates (CTR) are integral to targeted advertising, how to perform basic DataFrame manipulation, and how you can use machine learning models to predict CTR.

Exercise 1: Introduction to click-through rates Exercise 2: Beginning steps Exercise 3: Feature exploration Exercise 4: First evaluation of data Exercise 5: Overview of machine learning models Exercise 6: Logistic regression for breast cancer Exercise 7: Logistic regression for images Exercise 8: A second toy model Exercise 9: CTR prediction using decision trees Exercise 10: Model implementation Exercise 11: A first CTR model Exercise 12: Beyond only accuracy

This chapter provides the foundations for exploratory data analysis (EDA). Using sample data you’ll use the pandas library to look at columns and data types, explore missing data, and use hashing to perform feature engineering on categorical features. All of which are important when exploring features for more accurate CTR prediction.

Exercise 1: Exploratory data analysis Exercise 2: A first look Exercise 3: Checking for missing values Exercise 4: Distributions by CTR Exercise 5: Feature engineering Exercise 6: Analyzing datetime columns Exercise 7: Converting categorical variables Exercise 8: Creating new features Exercise 9: Standardizing features Exercise 10: Log normalization Exercise 11: Understanding standardization Exercise 12: Standard scaling

It’s time to dive deeper. Find out how you can use measures of model performance including precision and recall to answer real-world questions, such as evaluating ROI on ad spend. You’ll also learn ways to improve upon those evaluation metrics, such as ensemble methods and hyperparameter tuning.

Exercise 1: Applications of metric evaluation Exercise 2: Four categories of outcomes Exercise 3: Evaluating four categories Exercise 4: ROI on ad spend Exercise 5: Model evaluation Exercise 6: Precision and recall Exercise 7: Baseline Exercise 8: Classifier comparison Exercise 9: Tuning models Exercise 10: Regularization Exercise 11: Cross validation Exercise 12: Model selection Exercise 13: Ensembles and hyperparameter tuning Exercise 14: Understanding hyperparameter tuning Exercise 15: Random forests Exercise 16: Grid search

Profits can be heavily impacted by your campaign’s CTR. In this chapter, you’ll learn how deep learning can be used to reduce that risk. You’ll focus on multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and neural network models, and learn how these can be used to capture the complex relationship between variables to more accurately predict CTR. Lastly, you’ll explore how to apply the basics of hyperparameter tuning and regularization to classification models.

Exercise 1: Introduction to deep learning Exercise 2: Understanding MLPs Exercise 3: Beginning model Exercise 4: MLPs for CTR Exercise 5: Hyperparameter tuning in deep learning Exercise 6: Hyperparameter tuning in MLPs Exercise 7: Varying hyperparameters Exercise 8: MLP Grid Search Exercise 9: Model evaluation Exercise 10: F-beta score Exercise 11: Low precision and high AUC Exercise 12: Precision, ROI, and AUC Exercise 13: Model review and comparison Exercise 14: Model comparison warmup

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Exercise 15: Evaluating precision and ROI Exercise 16: Total scoring Exercise 17: Wrap-up video