Missing data imputation for deep learning tasks
Let’s say you have a dataset with missing values that you want to use to train a deep neural network. You can use the following approach to handle the missing values:
- Identify the columns with missing values: You can use the
isnull()method of the Pandas library to identify the columns with missing values. - Impute the missing values: There are several ways to impute missing values, such as using the mean, median, or mode of the column. You can use the
SimpleImputerclass from thesklearn.imputemodule to perform the imputation. - Split the dataset into training and test sets: You can use the
train_test_split()function from thesklearn.model_selectionmodule to split the dataset into training and test sets. - Build the model: You can use the
Sequentialclass from thekeraslibrary to define the model. You can add layers to the model using theadd()method. - Compile the model: You need to specify the loss function, the optimizer, and the metric(s) to be used during training.
- Train the model: You can use the
fit()method to train the model on the training set. - Evaluate the model: You can use the
evaluate()method to evaluate the model on the test set.
Here is some sample code that demonstrates how to handle missing values in a deep neural network using this approach:
# Import necessary libraries
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Dense
# Load the dataset
df = pd.read_csv("dataset.csv")
# Identify the columns with missing values
columns_with_missing_values = df.columns[df.isnull().any()]
# Impute the missing values
imputer = SimpleImputer()
df[columns_with_missing_values] = imputer.fit_transform(df[columns_with_missing_values])
# Split the dataset into training and test sets
X = df.drop(columns=["target"])
y = df["target"]
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2)
# Build the model
model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(10, input_dim=X_train.shape[1], activation="relu"))
model.add(Dense(1, activation="sigmoid"))
# Compile the model
model.compile(loss="binary_crossentropy", optimizer="adam", metrics=["accuracy"])
# Train the model
model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=10, batch_size=32)
# Evaluate the model
loss, accuracy = model.evaluate(X_test, y_test)
print("Loss:", loss)
print("Accuracy:", accuracy)