""" ================= Nearest Neighbors ================= Sample usage of Nearest Neighbors classification. It will plot the decision boundaries for each class. """ print __doc__ import numpy as np import pylab as pl from scikits.learn import neighbors, datasets # import some data to play with iris = datasets.load_iris() X = iris.data[:, :2] # we only take the first two features. We could # avoid this ugly slicing by using a two-dim dataset Y = iris.target h = .02 # step size in the mesh # we create an instance of Neighbours Classifier and fit the data. clf = neighbors.NeighborsClassifier() clf.fit(X, Y) # Plot the decision boundary. For that, we will asign a color to each # point in the mesh [x_min, m_max]x[y_min, y_max]. x_min, x_max = X[:,0].min()-1, X[:,0].max() + 1 y_min, y_max = X[:,1].min()-1, X[:,1].max() + 1 xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, h), np.arange(y_min, y_max, h)) Z = clf.predict(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()]) # Put the result into a color plot Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape) pl.set_cmap(pl.cm.Paired) pl.pcolormesh(xx, yy, Z) # Plot also the training points pl.scatter(X[:,0], X[:,1], c=Y) pl.title('3-Class classification using Nearest Neighbors') pl.axis('tight') pl.show()