Punisher & Programmer
I’ve got a stack of crime data on a serial offender. Want to help me build a predictive model that spots his next move before he does?
Sure, let’s start by loading the dataset and inspecting the columns. Then we can pick a few features like time of day, location, and victim profile. Once we have the data cleaned, I’ll set up a supervised model—maybe a random forest or gradient boosting—to predict the next crime location and time. After that we’ll evaluate it with cross‑validation and fine‑tune the hyperparameters. Sound good?
Sounds solid. Let’s pull the data and get those columns in order. I'll handle the cleaning and feature prep, you set up the model, and we run the cross‑validation to lock in the best parameters. Once we have a reliable prediction, we can pinpoint the next move. Let's move.
Okay, load the CSV into a DataFrame, inspect the headers, then split into X and y. I’ll set up a Pipeline with a RandomForestClassifier, use GridSearchCV over n_estimators, max_depth, and min_samples_split. We’ll run 5‑fold CV, capture the best score, then output the feature importance. Once you finish cleaning, just drop the placeholder columns and hand me the cleaned X and y. Then I’ll run the grid search. Let’s keep the code concise and focused.
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, GridSearchCV
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
# Load data
df = pd.read_csv('crime_data.csv')
# Inspect columns
print(df.columns)
# Separate features and target
# Assume target column is 'next_crime' (binary)
y = df['next_crime']
X = df.drop(columns=['next_crime', 'placeholder1', 'placeholder2']) # drop placeholders
# Basic cleaning: drop rows with missing values
X = X.dropna()
y = y.loc[X.index]
# Train/test split (not strictly needed for GridSearch but handy)
X_train, X_val, y_train, y_val = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42, stratify=y)
# Pipeline
pipe = Pipeline([('clf', RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42))])
# Parameter grid
param_grid = {
'clf__n_estimators': [100, 200, 300],
'clf__max_depth': [None, 10, 20, 30],
'clf__min_samples_split': [2, 5, 10]
}
# GridSearchCV
grid = GridSearchCV(pipe, param_grid, cv=5, scoring='accuracy', n_jobs=-1)
grid.fit(X_train, y_train)
print('Best CV accuracy:', grid.best_score_)
print('Best params:', grid.best_params_)
# Feature importance
best_model = grid.best_estimator_.named_steps['clf']
importances = best_model.feature_importances_
feat_importance = pd.Series(importances, index=X.columns).sort_values(ascending=False)
print('Feature importances:\n', feat_importance)
# Validate on holdout
y_pred = grid.predict(X_val)
print('Holdout accuracy:', accuracy_score(y_val, y_pred))