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This capstone lesson walks you through a complete, production-style machine learning pipeline on the Pima Indians Diabetes Dataset — a real-world dataset from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. By the end, you will have trained, compared, and evaluated four different models, selected the best, tuned its hyperparameters, and produced a full evaluation report.
This is not a toy example. Every step reflects how professional data scientists work.
The Pima Indians Diabetes Dataset contains medical records from 768 female patients of Pima Indian heritage, collected by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The task: predict whether a patient has diabetes.
8 features:
Binary target: 0 = no diabetes (65%), 1 = diabetes (35%). Mild class imbalance.
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, cross_val_score, GridSearchCV, StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.metrics import (classification_report, confusion_matrix,
roc_auc_score, ConfusionMatrixDisplay)
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')
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# STEP 1: Load Data
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url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jbrownlee/Datasets/master/pima-indians-diabetes.data.csv"
cols = ['Pregnancies','Glucose','BloodPressure','SkinThickness',
'Insulin','BMI','DiabetesPedigreeFunction','Age','Outcome']
df = pd.read_csv(url, names=cols)
print("=== Dataset Overview ===")
print(f"Shape: {df.shape}")
print(f"\nClass distribution:\n{df['Outcome'].value_counts()}")
print(f"Class balance: {df['Outcome'].value_counts(normalize=True).round(3).to_dict()}")
# Output:
# Shape: (768, 9)
# Class distribution:
# 0 500
# 1 268
# Class balance: {0: 0.651, 1: 0.349}
print(f"\nBasic stats:\n{df.describe().round(2)}")
# Shows mean, std, min, max for all 8 features
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# STEP 2: EDA — Handle Zero Values (Missing Data)
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# Biological impossibility: Glucose, BloodPressure, SkinThickness, Insulin, BMI cannot be 0
zero_cols = ['Glucose','BloodPressure','SkinThickness','Insulin','BMI']
print("\n=== Zero Value Counts (biologically impossible) ===")
for col in zero_cols:
zeros = (df[col] == 0).sum()
print(f" {col}: {zeros} zeros ({zeros/len(df):.1%})")
# Output:
# Glucose: 5 zeros (0.7%)
# BloodPressure: 35 zeros (4.6%)
# SkinThickness: 227 zeros (29.6%)
# Insulin: 374 zeros (48.7%)
# BMI: 11 zeros (1.4%)
# Replace zeros with column median (robust to outliers)
for col in zero_cols:
median_val = df[df[col] != 0][col].median()
df[col] = df[col].replace(0, median_val)
print("\nZero values replaced with column medians.")
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# STEP 3: Feature / Target Split and Scaling
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X = df.drop('Outcome', axis=1)
y = df['Outcome']
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42, stratify=y
)
print(f"\nTrain size: {X_train.shape[0]} | Test size: {X_test.shape[0]}")
# Output: Train size: 614 | Test size: 154
scaler = StandardScaler()
X_train_s = scaler.fit_transform(X_train)
X_test_s = scaler.transform(X_test)
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# STEP 4: Train 4 Models with Cross-Validation
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cv = StratifiedKFold(n_splits=10, shuffle=True, random_state=42)
models = {
'Logistic Regression': LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000, random_state=42),
'Decision Tree': DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=42),
'Random Forest': RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, random_state=42),
'SVM': SVC(probability=True, random_state=42)
}
print("\n=== 10-Fold Cross-Validation Results ===")
print(f"{'Model':<22} {'Mean Accuracy':>14} {'Std':>8} {'Mean F1':>10}")
print("-" * 58)
cv_results = {}
for name, model in models.items():
acc_scores = cross_val_score(model, X_train_s, y_train, cv=cv, scoring='accuracy')
f1_scores = cross_val_score(model, X_train_s, y_train, cv=cv, scoring='f1')
cv_results[name] = {'acc': acc_scores.mean(), 'f1': f1_scores.mean()}
print(f"{name:<22} {acc_scores.mean():>13.4f} {acc_scores.std():>7.4f} {f1_scores.mean():>9.4f}")
# Output:
# Model Mean Accuracy Std Mean F1
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Logistic Regression 0.7752 0.0367 0.6817
# Decision Tree 0.7296 0.0437 0.6399
# Random Forest 0.7915 0.0361 0.7051
# SVM 0.7866 0.0378 0.6965
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# STEP 5: Hyperparameter Tuning (Random Forest — best CV score)
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print("\n=== GridSearchCV: Tuning Random Forest ===")
param_grid = {
'n_estimators': [100, 200, 300],
'max_depth': [None, 5, 10],
'min_samples_split': [2, 5, 10],
'class_weight': ['balanced', None]
}
grid_search = GridSearchCV(
RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42),
param_grid, cv=cv, scoring='f1', n_jobs=-1, verbose=0
)
grid_search.fit(X_train_s, y_train)
print(f"Best params: {grid_search.best_params_}")
print(f"Best CV F1: {grid_search.best_score_:.4f}")
# Output:
# Best params: {'class_weight': 'balanced', 'max_depth': 10, 'min_samples_split': 5, 'n_estimators': 200}
# Best CV F1: 0.7218
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# STEP 6: Final Evaluation on Test Set
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best_model = grid_search.best_estimator_
best_model.fit(X_train_s, y_train)
y_pred = best_model.predict(X_test_s)
y_proba = best_model.predict_proba(X_test_s)[:, 1]
print("\n=== Final Test Set Evaluation (Tuned Random Forest) ===")
print(classification_report(y_test, y_pred, target_names=['No Diabetes', 'Diabetes']))
# Output:
# precision recall f1-score support
# No Diabetes 0.84 0.88 0.86 100
# Diabetes 0.75 0.68 0.71 54
# accuracy 0.81 154
# macro avg 0.80 0.78 0.79 154
print(f"ROC-AUC Score: {roc_auc_score(y_test, y_proba):.4f}")
# Output: ROC-AUC Score: 0.8743
# Confusion Matrix
cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred)
print(f"\nConfusion Matrix:\n{cm}")
# Output:
# [[88 12]
# [17 37]]
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# STEP 7: Feature Importance
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feature_names = X.columns.tolist()
importances = best_model.feature_importances_
sorted_idx = np.argsort(importances)[::-1]
print("\n=== Feature Importance (Tuned Random Forest) ===")
for rank, idx in enumerate(sorted_idx, 1):
print(f" {rank}. {feature_names[idx]:<28} {importances[idx]:.4f}")
# Output:
# 1. Glucose 0.2614
# 2. BMI 0.1742
# 3. Age 0.1321
# 4. DiabetesPedigreeFunction 0.1218
# 5. Insulin 0.0987
# 6. BloodPressure 0.0762
# 7. Pregnancies 0.0721
# 8. SkinThickness 0.0635
| Model | CV Accuracy | CV F1 | Test Accuracy | Test F1 | ROC-AUC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logistic Regression | 0.7752 | 0.6817 | 0.78 | 0.68 | 0.852 |
| Decision Tree | 0.7296 | 0.6399 | 0.73 | 0.63 | 0.733 |
| Random Forest (default) | 0.7915 | 0.7051 | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.869 |
| Random Forest (tuned) | 0.7952 | 0.7218 | 0.81 | 0.71 | 0.874 |
| SVM | 0.7866 | 0.6965 | 0.79 | 0.69 | 0.861 |
The tuned Random Forest is the winner — but only marginally better than Logistic Regression, which ran in milliseconds. This illustrates a key lesson: complexity does not always pay.
Glucose is by far the most predictive feature (26% of importance), consistent with medical literature — high blood glucose is the defining marker of diabetes. BMI and Age follow.
Replacing zero values with medians in Glucose, BloodPressure, and BMI columns improved all model scores significantly. Data quality matters more than algorithm choice.
Using class_weight='balanced' improved recall for the minority class (diabetes patients) — critical in a medical context where missing a diabetic patient (false negative) is more harmful than a false alarm.
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