Random Forest Classification Accuracy Calculation

This function uses the random forest algorithm to classify the given data and returns the classification accuracy.

Technology Stack : scikit-learn

Code Type : Machine learning classification

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def random_forest_classification(X, y):
    from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
    from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
    from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
    
    # Split the dataset into training and testing sets
    X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.3, random_state=42)
    
    # Create a random forest classifier
    clf = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, random_state=42)
    
    # Train the classifier
    clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
    
    # Make predictions on the test set
    y_pred = clf.predict(X_test)
    
    # Calculate the accuracy of the classifier
    accuracy = accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred)
    
    return accuracy