flamingofugang / cause-effect

Kaggle cause-effect software

Copyright José A. R. Fonollosa [email protected]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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code version: 2.02 code date: 09-OCT-2013 installation instructions: python 2.7 code. No installation required required python modules: numpy, pandas, sklearn, scipy Tested on a Linux machine (Fedora 17) with python 2.7.3 and the following versions of the python libraries numpy==1.6.2 pandas==0.10.0 scikit-learn==0.13.1 scipy==0.10.1

TRAINING (Aprox. 45 minutes)

• Download train, SUP1 and SUP2 data from Kaggle (cause-effect competition)
• Edit SETTINGS.json to indicate your data folders
• Train the models: python train.py train train1 train2

FAST TEST (first 9 entries of the validation data)

• python predict.py CEfinal_valid_pairs_head.csv CEfinal_valid_publicinfo_head.csv CEfinal_valid_predictions_head.csv Time to process: 10 seconds Results: (CEfinal_valid_predictions_head.csv rounded to 4 decimals places) SampleID,Target valid1, 0.70 valid2, 0.00 valid3, 0.00 valid4, 0.00 valid5, 0.00 valid6,-0.55 valid7,-0.14 valid8, 0.00 valid9,-0.01

See the data page of the Kaggle cause-effect competition for information about the data