A Graphical Approach to Showing the Result of Classification Models

This is one of my favorite charts, it easily allows one to see how many predictions are right, and it allows one to see where the wrong ones are as well. It is the equivalent of a confusion matrix, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Some sample code is included below.

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#requires ggplot2. Data has to be in a dataset with three columns: actual, predicted and match.
#match is Yes if actual and predicted match, No otherwise.

require(ggplot2)

fitchart <- ggplot(chartdata,aes(x=actual,y=predicted,color=actual,shape=match))+geom_jitter(alpha=.6)+theme_bw()
fitchart <- fitchart + ylab(“Predicted Activity”)+xlab(“Actual Activity”)+ggtitle(“Summary of Classification Accuracy”)
fitchart <- fitchart+theme(legend.position=”bottom”)+theme(plot.title = element_text(size=14,color=”blue”, face=”bold”))
fitchart <- fitchart+theme(axis.title.x = element_text(face=”bold”,size=14),axis.title.y = element_text(face=”bold”,size=14))
fitchart <- fitchart+theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=0,color=”black”,size=12),axis.text.y=element_text(color=”black”,size=12))
fitchart <- fitchart + theme(legend.text = element_text(colour=”black”, size = 10),legend.title = element_text( face=”bold”))
fitchart <- fitchart + scale_color_discrete(name=”Actual\nActivity”)+scale_shape_manual(values=c(4,20),name=”Correct\nPrediction”)
fitchart