How to plot the text classification using tf-idf svm sklearn in python

Question

I have implemented the text classification using tf-idf and SVM by following the tutorial from this tutorial

The classification is working properly. Now I want to pl

Answer 1

First, you need to select only 2 features in order to create the 2-dimensional decision surface plot.

Example using some synthetic data:

from sklearn.svm import SVC
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn import svm, datasets
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_20newsgroups
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer, TfidfTransformer
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='train', 
                                      categories=['alt.atheism', 'sci.space'])
pipeline = Pipeline([('vect', CountVectorizer()), ('tfidf', TfidfTransformer())])        
X = pipeline.fit_transform(newsgroups_train.data).todense()

# Select ONLY 2 features
X = np.array(X)
X = X[:, [0,1]]
y = newsgroups_train.target

def make_meshgrid(x, y, h=.02):
    x_min, x_max = x.min() - 1, x.max() + 1
    y_min, y_max = y.min() - 1, y.max() + 1
    xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, h), np.arange(y_min, y_max, h))
    return xx, yy

def plot_contours(ax, clf, xx, yy, **params):
    Z = clf.predict(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()])
    Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape)
    out = ax.contourf(xx, yy, Z, **params)
    return out

model = svm.SVC(kernel='linear')
clf = model.fit(X, y)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# title for the plots
title = ('Decision surface of linear SVC ')
# Set-up grid for plotting.
X0, X1 = X[:, 0], X[:, 1]
xx, yy = make_meshgrid(X0, X1)

plot_contours(ax, clf, xx, yy, cmap=plt.cm.coolwarm, alpha=0.8)
ax.scatter(X0, X1, c=y, cmap=plt.cm.coolwarm, s=20, edgecolors='k')
ax.set_ylabel('y label here')
ax.set_xlabel('x label here')
ax.set_xticks(())
ax.set_yticks(())
ax.set_title(title)
ax.legend()
plt.show()

RESULTS

The plot is not nice since we selected randomly only 2 features to create it. One way to make it nice is the following: You could use a univariate ranking method (e.g. ANOVA F-value test) and find the best top-2 features. Then using these top-2 you could create a nice separating surface plot.