Confusion matrix

Example of confusion matrix usage to evaluate the quality of the output of a classifier.

Python source code: plot_confusion_matrix.py

import random
import pylab as pl
from scikits.learn import svm, datasets
from scikits.learn.metrics import confusion_matrix

# import some data to play with
iris = datasets.load_iris()
X = iris.data
y = iris.target
n_samples, n_features = X.shape
p = range(n_samples)
random.seed(0)
random.shuffle(p)
X, y = X[p], y[p]
half = int(n_samples/2)

# Run classifier
classifier = svm.SVC(kernel='linear')
y_ = classifier.fit(X[:half],y[:half]).predict(X[half:])

# Compute confusion matrix
cm = confusion_matrix(y[half:], y_)

print cm

# Show confusion matrix
pl.matshow(cm)
pl.title('Confusion matrix')
pl.colorbar()
pl.show()