readme.md

scikit-lego

We love scikit learn but very often we find ourselves writing custom transformers, metrics and models. The goal of this project is to attempt to consolidate these into a package that offers code quality/testing. This project started as a collaboration between multiple companies in the Netherlands but has since received contributions from around the globe. It was initiated by Matthijs Brouns and Vincent D. Warmerdam as a tool to teach people how to contribute to open source.

Note that we're not formally affiliated with the scikit-learn project at all, but we aim to strictly adhere to their standards.

The same holds with lego. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this project.

Installation

Install scikit-lego via pip with

pip install scikit-lego

Via conda with

conda install -c conda-forge scikit-lego

Alternatively, to edit and contribute you can fork/clone and run:

pip install -e ".[dev]"
python setup.py develop

Documentation

The documentation can be found here.

Usage

We offer custom metrics, models and transformers. You can import them just like you would in scikit-learn.

# the scikit learn stuff we love
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline

# from scikit lego stuff we add
from sklego.preprocessing import RandomAdder
from sklego.mixture import GMMClassifier

...

mod = Pipeline([
    ("scale", StandardScaler()),
    ("random_noise", RandomAdder()),
    ("model", GMMClassifier())
])

...

Features

Here's a list of features that this library currently offers:

• sklego.datasets.load_abalone loads in the abalone dataset
• sklego.datasets.load_arrests loads in a dataset with fairness concerns
• sklego.datasets.load_chicken loads in the joyful chickweight dataset
• sklego.datasets.load_heroes loads a heroes of the storm dataset
• sklego.datasets.make_simpleseries make a simulated timeseries
• sklego.pandas_utils.add_lags adds lag values in a pandas dataframe
• sklego.pandas_utils.log_step a useful decorator to log your pipeline steps
• sklego.dummy.RandomRegressor dummy benchmark that predicts random values
• sklego.linear_model.DeadZoneRegressor experimental feature that has a deadzone in the cost function
• sklego.linear_model.DemographicParityClassifier logistic classifier constrained on demographic parity
• sklego.linear_model.EqualOpportunityClassifier logistic classifier constrained on equal opportunity
• sklego.linear_model.ProbWeightRegression linear model that treats coefficients as probabilistic weights
• sklego.naive_bayes.GaussianMixtureNB classifies by training a 1D GMM per column per class
• sklego.naive_bayes.BayesianGaussianMixtureNB classifies by training a bayesian 1D GMM per column per class
• sklego.mixture.BayesianGMMClassifier classifies by training a bayesian GMM per class
• sklego.mixture.BayesianGMMOutlierDetector detects outliers based on a trained bayesian GMM
• sklego.mixture.GMMClassifier classifies by training a GMM per class
• sklego.mixture.GMMOutlierDetector detects outliers based on a trained GMM
• sklego.meta.ConfusionBalancer experimental feature that allows you to balance the confusion matrix
• sklego.meta.DecayEstimator adds decay to the sample_weight that the model accepts
• sklego.meta.EstimatorTransformer adds a model output as a feature
• sklego.meta.GroupedEstimator can split the data into runs and run a model on each
• sklego.meta.SubjectiveClassifier experimental feature to add a prior to your classifier
• sklego.meta.Thresholder meta model that allows you to gridsearch over the threshold
• sklego.preprocessing.ColumnCapper limits extreme values of the model features
• sklego.preprocessing.ColumnDropper drops a column from pandas
• sklego.preprocessing.ColumnSelector selects columns based on column name
• sklego.preprocessing.InformationFilter transformer that can de-correlate features
• sklego.preprocessing.IdentityTransformer returns the same data, useful in making concatenating pipelines
• sklego.preprocessing.OrthogonalTransformer makes all features linearly independent
• sklego.preprocessing.PandasTypeSelector selects columns based on pandas type
• sklego.preprocessing.PatsyTransformer applies a patsy formula
• sklego.preprocessing.RandomAdder adds randomness in training
• sklego.preprocessing.RepeatingBasisFunction repeating feature engineering, useful for timeseries
• sklego.preprocessing.OutlierRemover experimental method to remove outliers during training
• sklego.model_selection.KlusterFoldValidation experimental feature that does K folds based on clustering
• sklego.model_selection.TimeGapSplit timeseries Kfold with a gap between train/test
• sklego.pipeline.DebugPipeline adds debug information to make debugging easier
• sklego.pipeline.make_debug_pipeline shorthand function to create a debugable pipeline
• sklego.metrics.correlation_score calculates correlation between model output and feature
• sklego.metrics.equal_opportunity_score calculates equal opportunity metric
• sklego.metrics.p_percent_score proxy for model fairness with regards to sensitive attribute
• sklego.metrics.subset_score calculate a score on a subset of your data (meant for fairness tracking)

New Features

We want to be rather open here in what we accept but we do demand three things before they become added to the project:

1. any new feature contributes towards a demonstratable real-world usecase
2. any new feature passes standard unit tests (we use the ones from scikit-learn)
3. the feature has been discussed in the issue list beforehand

We automate all of our testing and use pre-commit hooks to keep the code working.