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This document outlines Homework 0 for CS 391LH, focusing on programming with Jupyter and scikit-learn. Students are advised to use Google Colab or set up a local environment with Python 3.8 and several libraries, including scikit-learn and pandas, to analyze the Wisconsin breast cancer dataset. The assignment includes tasks such as exploring the dataset, plotting figures, and answering specific questions related to the data.

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Hw0 Programming Handout 4TbRRB6IAl

This document outlines Homework 0 for CS 391LH, focusing on programming with Jupyter and scikit-learn. Students are advised to use Google Colab or set up a local environment with Python 3.8 and several libraries, including scikit-learn and pandas, to analyze the Wisconsin breast cancer dataset. The assignment includes tasks such as exploring the dataset, plotting figures, and answering specific questions related to the data.

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CS 391LH Spring 2024

Homework 0 - Programming
Lecture: Prof. Adam Klivans
Keywords: Jupyter, scikit-learn

I recommend you use Google Colab for this course. Go to the Google Colab website and
try opening up a new notebook. If you want to run locally that’s fine: we will use Jupyter
Notebook with Python 3. Install Python 3.8, jupyter, scikit-learn, pandas, and matplotlib. We
also recommend installing seaborn, a data visualization library. You may find it convenient to use
Anaconda to manage your Python setup.
Load the Wisconsin breast cancer data set, which is available as part of the sklearn datasets.
You can read more about this dataset here.

from sklearn import datasets


cancer = datasets.load_breast_cancer()

The object cancer is a dictionary, you can check the keys using

cancer.keys()

and check the details by calling the keys, like by using

cancer.feature_names

to see the feature names. You can also view a more detailed description of the dataset:

print(cancer.DESCR)

Please read the description! On your own, explore the other functions related to the keys. You
will also want to load the data (from cancer.data) into a pandas DataFrame.

df = pd.DataFrame(cancer.data, columns=cancer.feature_names)

You can select the column(s) of the DataFrame by indexing on the column name(s). E.g., to
see the ‘mean radius’ column of df, simply type

df['mean radius']

Notice that invoking the above command returns a Series, a fundamental Pandas data-structure.
You can read more about this online.
You can select the row(s) of the DataFrame in multiple ways. One way is by slicing. For
example, if you want to see the top 100 rows of df, simply type

df[:100]

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Or if you want to see the 100th, simply type

df[99:100]

Another way would be

df.iloc[99]

You can read more about the iloc method online.


The questions below involve exploring the data by plotting some figures, and you will find
libraries like numpy, matplotlib and seaborn very useful. You may want to read up on built in
functions like where from numpy for finding indices (or index from pandas) and show, savefig
from matplotlib to show and save your plots.

(a) How many rows and columns are there in this data set? What do the rows and columns
represent?

(b) How many malignant cases are there in total?

(c) Make a scatterplot of ‘mean compactness’ and ‘mean perimeter’. Try to color the points by
their label (i.e. malignant or benign). You may find scatter (from matplotlib) or jointplot
(from seaborn) useful for this.

(d) Make pairwise scatterplots of ‘mean texture’, ‘mean perimeter’, ‘mean compactness’, and ‘mean
radius’. You may find scatter matrix (from matplotlib) or pairplot (from seaborn) useful
for this. Do you notice that two of these features seem to be particularly correlated? Why
might this be?

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