[GRASS-dev] r.randomforest built status

[Markus Neteler]

On Dec 19, 2016 5:41 AM, <dr.stevenpawley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for this – I have made some major changes to r.randomforest
recently, including adding options for spatial cross-validation.

This is great!

> I will move the import of pandas to a lazy import because I’m only using
pandas as a convenient way of saving the cross-validation results to file.
>
> Another question – r.randomforest is not really an appropriate name for
the module anymore. I have been adding features over time, based on my own
needs, but now it performs classification and regression using all of the
major machine learning methods, with random forests just being one of them.
>
> Is there a correct protocol for me to rename the script to something like
r.scikit.learn, or r.ml?

IMHO the name should reflect what it does and be understandable. So, r.ml
is a bit cryptic.

How about a new "family" r.learn.something? Maybe more will follow in
future.

Markus
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