So I'm finished one part of this assignment I have to do. There's only one part of the assignment that doesn't make any sense to me.
I'm doing a LinearRegression model and according to others I need to apply ans[i,:] = y_poly
at the very end, but I never got an answer as to why.
Can someone please explain to me what [i,:]
means? I haven't found any explanations online.
It's specific to the numpy
module, used in most data science modules.
ans[i,:] = y_poly
this is assigning a vector to a slice of numpy 2D array (slice assignment). Self-contained example:
>>> import numpy
>>> a = numpy.array([[0,0,0],[1,1,1]])
>>> a[0,:] = [3,4,5]
>>> a
array([[3, 4, 5],
[1, 1, 1]])
There is also slice assignment in base python, using only one dimension (a[:] = [1,2,3]
)