Preprocessing

Submodules

Package Contents

Classes Summary

TimeSeriesSplit

Rolling Origin Cross Validation for time series problems.

TrainingValidationSplit

Split the training data into training and validation sets.

Functions

drop_nan_target_rows

Drops rows in X and y when row in the target y has a value of NaN.

load_data

Load features and target from file.

number_of_features

Get the number of features of each specific dtype in a DataFrame.

split_data

Splits data into train and test sets.

target_distribution

Get the target distributions.

Contents

evalml.preprocessing.drop_nan_target_rows(X, y)[source]

Drops rows in X and y when row in the target y has a value of NaN.

Parameters
  • X (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – Data to transform

  • y (pd.Series, np.ndarray) – Target data

Returns

Transformed X (and y, if passed in) with rows that had a NaN value removed.

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame

evalml.preprocessing.load_data(path, index, target, n_rows=None, drop=None, verbose=True, **kwargs)[source]

Load features and target from file.

Parameters
  • path (str) – Path to file or a http/ftp/s3 URL

  • index (str) – Column for index

  • target (str) – Column for target

  • n_rows (int) – Number of rows to return

  • drop (list) – List of columns to drop

  • verbose (bool) – If True, prints information about features and target

Returns

Features matrix and target

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

evalml.preprocessing.number_of_features(dtypes)[source]

Get the number of features of each specific dtype in a DataFrame.

Parameters

dtypes (pd.Series) – DataFrame.dtypes to get the number of features for

Returns

dtypes and the number of features for each input type

Return type

pd.Series

evalml.preprocessing.split_data(X, y, problem_type, problem_configuration=None, test_size=0.2, random_seed=0)[source]

Splits data into train and test sets.

Parameters
  • X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – data of shape [n_samples, n_features]

  • y (pd.Series, or np.ndarray) – target data of length [n_samples]

  • problem_type (str or ProblemTypes) – type of supervised learning problem. see evalml.problem_types.problemtype.all_problem_types for a full list.

  • problem_configuration (dict) – Additional parameters needed to configure the search. For example, in time series problems, values should be passed in for the date_index, gap, and max_delay variables.

  • test_size (float) – What percentage of data points should be included in the test set. Defaults to 0.2 (20%).

  • random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Returns

Feature and target data each split into train and test sets

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame, pd.Series, pd.Series

evalml.preprocessing.target_distribution(targets)[source]

Get the target distributions.

Parameters

targets (pd.Series) – Target data

Returns

Target data and their frequency distribution as percentages.

Return type

pd.Series

class evalml.preprocessing.TimeSeriesSplit(max_delay=0, gap=0, date_index=None, n_splits=3)[source]

Rolling Origin Cross Validation for time series problems.

This class uses max_delay and gap values to take into account that evalml time series pipelines perform some feature and target engineering, e.g delaying input features and shifting the target variable by the desired amount. If the data that will be split already has all the features and appropriate target values, and then set max_delay and gap to 0.

Parameters
  • max_delay (int) – Max delay value for feature engineering. Time series pipelines create delayed features from existing features. This process will introduce NaNs into the first max_delay number of rows. The splitter uses the last max_delay number of rows from the previous split as the first max_delay number of rows of the current split to avoid “throwing out” more data than in necessary. Defaults to 0.

  • gap (int) – Gap used in time series problem. Time series pipelines shift the target variable by gap rows. Defaults to 0.

  • date_index (str) – Name of the column containing the datetime information used to order the data. Defaults to None.

  • n_splits (int) – number of data splits to make. Defaults to 3.

Methods

get_n_splits

Get the number of data splits.

split

Get the time series splits.

get_n_splits(self, X=None, y=None, groups=None)[source]

Get the number of data splits.

split(self, X, y=None, groups=None)[source]

Get the time series splits.

X and y are assumed to be sorted in ascending time order. This method can handle passing in empty or None X and y data but note that X and y cannot be None or empty at the same time.

Parameters
  • X (pd.DataFrame, None) – Features to split.

  • y (pd.DataFrame, None) – Target variable to split.

  • groups – Ignored but kept for compatibility with sklearn api.

Returns

Iterator of (train, test) indices tuples.

class evalml.preprocessing.TrainingValidationSplit(test_size=None, train_size=None, shuffle=False, stratify=None, random_seed=0)[source]

Split the training data into training and validation sets.

Parameters
  • test_size (float) – What percentage of data points should be included in the validation set. Defalts to the complement of train_size if train_size is set, and 0.25 otherwise.

  • train_size (float) – What percentage of data points should be included in the training set. Defaults to the complement of test_size

  • shuffle (boolean) – Whether to shuffle the data before splitting. Defaults to False.

  • stratify (list) – Splits the data in a stratified fashion, using this argument as class labels. Defaults to None.

  • random_seed (int) – The seed to use for random sampling. Defaults to 0.

Methods

get_n_splits

Returns the number of splits of this object

split

Divides the data into training and testing sets

static get_n_splits()[source]

Returns the number of splits of this object

split(self, X, y=None)[source]

Divides the data into training and testing sets

Parameters
  • X (pd.DataFrame) – Dataframe of points to split

  • y (pd.Series) – Series of points to split

Returns

Indices to split data into training and test set

Return type

list