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Radial Velocity: Classifying Exoplanets with Support Vector Machines in Python

In this tutorial, we’ll use a support vector machine (SVM) model to classify exoplanets based on their atmospheric composition. We’ll use Python and the scikit-learn library to train and evaluate the model.

First, we’ll start by loading the exoplanet data into a Pandas DataFrame using the read_csv function and selecting the features and target variable that we want to use for the model. The features are the characteristics of the exoplanets that we will use to make predictions, and the target variable is the class of exoplanets that we want to predict.

Next, we’ll split the data into training and test sets using the train_test_split function. The training set will be used to train the model, and the test set will be used to evaluate the model’s performance.

Then, we’ll train the SVM model using the fit function and the training set. The model will learn patterns in the data that can be used to make predictions about exoplanet classes.

After the model is trained, we’ll use the predict function to make predictions on the test set. We’ll compare the model’s predictions to the true values in the test set to see how well the model is performing.

Finally, we’ll evaluate the model’s accuracy using the accuracy_score function from the sklearn.metrics module. The accuracy score is the percentage of correct predictions that the model makes on the test set.

That’s it! We’ve trained and evaluated an SVM model to classify exoplanets based on their atmospheric composition using Python and scikit-learn.

Using the plot_confusion_matrix function from the sklearn.metrics module, we can also visualize the model’s performance by plotting a confusion matrix, which shows the number of true positive, true negative, false positive, and false negative predictions made by the model.

We can customize the plot by using functions from the matplotlib.pyplot module, such as title, xlabel, and ylabel to add titles and labels to the plot.

With these tools, we can build and evaluate SVM models to classify exoplanets based on their atmospheric composition and gain a better understanding of the characteristics of these fascinating celestial bodies.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Mon Jan  2 04:25:04 2023

@author: ramnot
"""

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, confusion_matrix

# Load the dataset into a Pandas DataFrame
df = pd.read_csv('data.csv')

# Encode the string values in the 'exoplanetary atmospheric composition' column
encoder = LabelEncoder()
df['exoplanetary atmospheric composition'] = encoder.fit_transform(df['exoplanetary atmospheric composition'])

# Select the features and target variable
X = df[['exoplanetary atmospheric composition']]
y = df['stellar temperature']

# Split the data into training and test sets
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)

# Train the SVM model
model = SVC()
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Make predictions on the test set
y_pred = model.predict(X_test)

# Evaluate the model's accuracy
accuracy = accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred)
print(f'Accuracy: {accuracy:.2f}')

# Compute the confusion matrix
cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred)

# Plot the confusion matrix
plt.imshow(cm, cmap='Blues')
plt.colorbar()

# Customize the plot
plt.title('Confusion Matrix')
plt.xlabel('Predicted Label')
plt.ylabel('True Label')

plt.show()

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