Dear Instructors,
I am struggling to understand how the ungraded plot_decision_boundary function works in Week 3
Planar_data_classification_with_one_hidden_layer coding exercise (planar_utils.py). I know it is not part of the grading, but I want to understand how the full code works.
In particular, I do not understand the purpose and the mathematics behind the reshaping Z.
For convenience, copied the function and added my question within the code.
Thank you for your help!
def plot_decision_boundary(model, X, y):
# Set min and max values and give it some padding
x_min, x_max = X[0, :].min() - 1, X[0, :].max() + 1
y_min, y_max = X[1, :].min() - 1, X[1, :].max() + 1
h = 0.01
# Generate a grid of points with distance h between them
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, h), np.arange(y_min, y_max, h))#https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.arange.html Return evenly spaced values within a given interval.
# Predict the function value for the whole grid
Z = model(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()])#https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.c_.html Translates slice objects to concatenation along the second axis.
#Question 2
#Planar_data_classification_with_one_hidden_layer
#what is np.c_ doing in this case? is this creating a list of tuples?
#xx.ravel() (1038240,)
## yy.ravel()(1038240,)
## np.c_(1038240, 2) Seems to stack horisontally xx and yy
## z (1008, 1030) multiplying the two gives 1038240 i.e. the dimension of xx, but how were these numbers computed?
## Could you please explain how what we did?
Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape)
# Plot the contour and training examples
plt.contourf(xx, yy, Z, cmap=plt.cm.Spectral) # further down Z is passed to controurf function.
# I understood Z is the height?
#https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.contourf.html
plt.ylabel('x2')
plt.xlabel('x1')
plt.scatter(X[0, :], X[1, :], c=y, cmap=plt.cm.Spectral)
