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ALY 6020 Week 1 Midweek Assignment

This report details the Module 1 Midweek project for ALY 6020 Predictive Analytics, focusing on building a classification model using the k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) algorithm with the 'iris' dataset. The model achieved an accuracy of 96.7%, with individual species accuracies of 100% for setosa and versicolor, and 90% for virginica. The analysis indicates that varying the value of k maintains an accuracy above 90%, confirming the effectiveness of the k-NN model for classifying iris types.

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ALY 6020 Week 1 Midweek Assignment

This report details the Module 1 Midweek project for ALY 6020 Predictive Analytics, focusing on building a classification model using the k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) algorithm with the 'iris' dataset. The model achieved an accuracy of 96.7%, with individual species accuracies of 100% for setosa and versicolor, and 90% for virginica. The analysis indicates that varying the value of k maintains an accuracy above 90%, confirming the effectiveness of the k-NN model for classifying iris types.

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ALY 6020- Module 1 Midweek Project

Liankai Ren

ALY6020: Predictive Analytics, College of Professional Studies,


Northeastern University

Professor: Chris Luciuk.

Sep 24, 2022


Introduction
This report is the Module 1 Midweek project of ALY 6020 Predictive Analytics. In
this report, we used the k-nearest neighbour algorithm(K-NN) to build a classification
model. The k-NN is a non-parametric supervised learning method first developed by
Evelyn Fix and Joseph Hodges in 1951. It is a simple, easy-to-implement supervised
machine learning algorithm that can be used to solve both classification and regression
problems. Therefore, the k-NN has become one of the most famous classification
algorithms as of now in the industry. The dataset that we used in this report is “iris”. The
data set contains 3 classes of 50 instances each, where each class refers to a type of iris
plant. There are 5 attributes: sepal length, sepal width, petal length, petal width and
class. In this report, we need to use the k-NN to build a classification model for different
types of irises.
Analyzsis
First, library required package and load the “iris” dataset. There are 5 attributes in
this dataset. The first 4 attributes are the target scale and the last attribute “Species” is
the classifier.

Then split the data to train set and test set with the ratio 80%. Also, set the target
scale that include all 4 attribute for iris.

After all preparation, we can build the k-NN model and set the k=1. The confusion
matrix shows the result of our k-NN model and answer the question that the accuracy of
the model is 0.967. The accuracy of the setosa is 100%, accuracy of the versicolor is
100% and accuracy of the virginica is 90%.

For further analyzing, the value of k can be varied to check the accuracy. From
the output, it shows when k=2, 3, 5, 10, the accuracy is 90%. Based on the results, all
accuracies if the k-NN model with different k is above 90%. Therefore, we can conclude
that the k-NN model is a good classification model for prediction the type of iris.
Reference
“K-NN Classifier in R Programming - GeeksforGeeks.” GeeksforGeeks, 18
June 2020, https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/k-nn-classifier-in-r-programming/.
skalskip. “Iris Data Visualization and KNN Classification | Kaggle.” Kaggle:
Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community, Kaggle, 27 Sept. 2017,
https://www.kaggle.com/code/skalskip/iris-data-visualization-and-knn-
classification.

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