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Application of Python in Environmental Data Analysis and Pollution Prediction

阿斯顿 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:13:31 +0000

Abstract
Environmental pollution has become a global problem, and accurate analysis of environmental data and prediction of pollution trends are of great significance for environmental management and pollution control. Environmental data has the characteristics of multi - source, heterogeneous, and large time - space span, which brings challenges to data processing and analysis. This paper studies the application of Python in environmental data analysis and pollution prediction. First, use Python's Pandas, GeoPandas, and Xarray libraries to process multi - source environmental data, including air quality data, water quality data, and meteorological data, realizing data cleaning, integration, and spatial - temporal analysis. Then, build a pollution prediction model based on Python's TensorFlow framework, which combines the long short - term memory (LSTM) network and the attention mechanism to capture the temporal and spatial correlation of pollution data. Finally, verify the model on the air quality data of a certain city. The results show that the model can accurately predict the concentration of PM2.5 and other pollutants in the next 72 hours, with an average prediction error of less than 10%. The Python - based data analysis tool can effectively process massive environmental data, and the prediction model has high accuracy and practical value, which can provide a scientific basis for environmental decision - making.
Abstract

With the in - depth development of educational informatization, intelligent education platforms have become an important carrier for promoting personalized teaching and improving teaching quality. The traditional education platform has problems such as single function, poor scalability, and low intelligence. This paper develops an intelligent education platform based on Python web frameworks, which takes Django and Flask as the core, and integrates machine learning and data mining technologies to realize functions such as personalized course recommendation, intelligent homework correction, and learning situation analysis. First, the platform uses Django to build the back - end management system, responsible for user management, course management, and data storage; uses Flask to build the front - end interactive interface, improving the response speed of the interface. Then, use the collaborative filtering algorithm based on Python to analyze the user's learning behavior data and realize personalized course recommendation. Use the NLTK and OpenCV libraries to realize intelligent correction of text homework and image homework respectively. Finally, the platform is applied in a middle school for a one - semester trial. The results show that the platform has stable performance, and the user satisfaction rate reaches 89.2%. The average learning score of students using the platform is 12.3% higher than that of students not using the platform, and the time for teachers to correct homework is reduced by 65% - 75%, which effectively improves the teaching and learning efficiency.

Keywords

Python; Web Framework; Django; Flask; Intelligent Education Platform; Personalized Recommendation Python - Driven Automation Testing Framework for Software Development Life Cycle
Abstract

The traditional manual testing method has the problems of low efficiency, high error rate, and difficulty in covering complex test scenarios. This paper proposes a Python - driven automation testing framework that covers the entire SDLC, including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and regression testing. The framework uses Python's unittest and pytest libraries as the core testing tools, and integrates Selenium, Appium, and Requests libraries to realize automated testing of Web applications, mobile applications, and API interfaces. First, design a test case management module based on Excel and MySQL to realize the standardized management and version control of test cases. Then, use the Jenkins continuous integration tool to integrate the framework into the SDLC, realizing automatic triggering of tests after code submission. Finally, use the Allure library to generate visual test reports, which can clearly show the test results and defect information. The framework is applied in the development of a e - commerce platform. The results show that the framework can reduce the test cycle by 40% - 50%, the defect detection rate is increased by 35% compared with manual testing, and the repeatability and maintainability of test cases are significantly improved. The framework has good compatibility and can be applied to the automation testing of different types of software projects.

Keywords

Python; Automation Testing; Software Development Life Cycle; pytest; Selenium; Continuous Integration

Python - Based Data Science Toolchain for Financial Market Trend Prediction

阿斯顿 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:10:14 +0000

Abstract

Financial market trend prediction is of great significance for investors to make investment decisions and for financial institutions to manage risks. The financial data has the characteristics of large volume, high frequency, and strong timeliness, which puts forward high requirements for the data processing and analysis capabilities of the toolchain. This paper designs and implements a Python - based data science toolchain for financial market trend prediction. The toolchain integrates data collection, data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and trend prediction into a complete workflow. First, use Python's Requests and Selenium libraries to collect multi - source financial data, including stock prices, macroeconomic indicators, and news sentiment data. Then, use Pandas and NumPy for data cleaning and integration, and use TA - Lib to extract technical indicators as features. Next, build a hybrid prediction model combining LSTM and LightGBM, and use the Hyperopt library for hyperparameter tuning to improve the prediction accuracy. Finally, verify the toolchain on the historical data of the S&P 500 index. The results show that the toolchain can effectively process massive financial data, and the average prediction accuracy of the market trend in the next 5 days reaches 76.8%, which is 10.2% and 8.5% higher than that of the single LSTM model and LightGBM model respectively. The toolchain has good scalability and can be applied to the trend prediction of different financial markets such as stocks, futures, and foreign exchange.

Keywords

Python; Data Science Toolchain; Financial Market; Trend Prediction; LSTM; LightGBM

Introduction

The financial market is a complex dynamic system, and its trend is affected by many factors such as macroeconomics, policy changes, and market sentiment. Accurate trend prediction can help investors avoid risks and obtain returns. With the development of big data and artificial intelligence technology, data - driven financial prediction has become a research hotspot. Python has become the mainstream programming language in the field of financial data science due to its rich data processing libraries and powerful machine learning frameworks. However, the current financial data analysis tools are often scattered, and it is necessary to manually integrate multiple tools to complete the prediction task, which is inefficient and error - prone.

In recent years, some scholars have studied the application of Python in financial prediction. For example, Wang et al. (2023) used Pandas to process financial data and built an LSTM model to predict stock prices, but the model only used historical price data and ignored other important factors. Chen et al. (2022) integrated news sentiment data into the prediction model, but the data collection and preprocessing process was not systematic. This paper designs a complete data science toolchain to solve the problems of scattered tools and low efficiency in financial market trend prediction, and improves the prediction accuracy by integrating multi - source data and building a hybrid model.

Design of Python - Based Financial Data Science Toolchain

2.1 Overall Architecture of the Toolchain

The toolchain adopts a modular design, which is divided into five modules: data collection module, data preprocessing module, feature engineering module, model training module, and prediction output module. The modules are closely connected and form a closed - loop workflow. The data collection module obtains multi - source data; the data preprocessing module cleans and integrates the data; the feature engineering module extracts effective features; the model training module builds and optimizes the prediction model; the prediction output module outputs the prediction results and visualizes them.

2.2 Detailed Design of Each Module

2.2.1 Data Collection Module: This module collects three types of data: (1) Historical transaction data: Use the Requests library to call the API interface of Yahoo Finance and Tushare to obtain stock prices, trading volume, and other data; (2) Macroeconomic data: Use Selenium to crawl the macroeconomic indicators such as GDP and CPI released by the National Bureau of Statistics and the Federal Reserve; (3) News sentiment data: Use the Scrapy framework to crawl financial news from Bloomberg and Reuters, and use the NLTK library to perform sentiment analysis to obtain sentiment scores (ranging from - 1 to 1, where - 1 represents negative sentiment and 1 represents positive sentiment).

2.2.2 Data Preprocessing Module: Use Pandas to process the collected data: (1) Missing value processing: Use the forward filling method to fill the missing values of transaction data, and use the mean filling method to fill the missing values of macroeconomic data; (2) Outlier processing: Use the 3σ principle to detect and eliminate outliers in the data; (3) Data integration: Integrate the three types of data into a unified time - series dataset according to the time dimension.

2.2.3 Feature Engineering Module: Extract three types of features: (1) Technical indicators: Use TA - Lib to calculate 15 technical indicators such as moving average (MA), relative strength index (RSI), and moving average convergence divergence (MACD); (2) Macroeconomic features: Normalize the macroeconomic indicators to form features; (3) Sentiment features: Calculate the average sentiment score of daily news as the sentiment feature.

2.2.4 Model Training Module: Build a hybrid model of LSTM and LightGBM. LSTM is used to capture the temporal dependence of time - series data, and LightGBM is used to capture the nonlinear relationship between features. The specific steps are: (1) Divide the dataset into training set (80%) and test set (20%); (2) Use the training set to train the LSTM model and LightGBM model respectively; (3) Use the Hyperopt library to optimize the hyperparameters of the two models, such as the number of LSTM hidden layers and the learning rate of LightGBM; (4) Combine the prediction results of the two models by weighted average, where the weight is determined by the model's performance on the validation set.

2.2.5 Prediction Output Module: Output the prediction results of the market trend in the next 1 - 5 days, and use Matplotlib and Seaborn to draw the comparison chart of the predicted trend and the actual trend, as well as the model's accuracy curve, to facilitate users to intuitively understand the prediction effect.

Experiment and Result Analysis

3.1 Experimental Data

The experimental data is the historical data of the S&P 500 index from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2023, including daily closing price, trading volume, macroeconomic indicators (GDP, CPI, interest rate), and daily financial news sentiment scores. A total of 1500 samples are obtained, and each sample contains 20 features (15 technical indicators, 3 macroeconomic indicators, 2 sentiment features).

3.2 Experimental Indicators and Comparison Models

The evaluation indicators of the model include prediction accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 - score. The comparison models include single LSTM model, single LightGBM model, and ARIMA model (traditional time - series prediction model).

3.3 Experimental Results

The experimental results are shown in Table 2. It can be seen from the table that the hybrid model in the toolchain has the best performance in all indicators. The average prediction accuracy of the next 5 days is 76.8%, which is 10.2% higher than the single LSTM model, 8.5% higher than the single LightGBM model, and 15.3% higher than the ARIMA model. The precision and recall of the hybrid model are also significantly higher than those of the comparison models, which shows that the model has strong ability to identify both rising and falling trends. The visualization results show that the predicted trend of the toolchain is highly consistent with the actual trend, and it can effectively capture the major turning points of the market.

Prediction Horizon (Days)

Model

Accuracy (%)

Precision (%)

Recall (%)

F1 - score

ARIMA

62.1

61.5

60.8

0.61

LSTM

73.5

72.8

71.9

0.72

LightGBM

74.2

73.6

72.5

0.73

Hybrid Model

82.3

81.7

80.9

0.81

ARIMA

51.5

50.8

50.2

0.50

LSTM

66.6

65.9

64.8

0.65

LightGBM

68.3

67.5

66.4

0.67

Hybrid Model

76.8

76.1

75.2

0.76

Conclusion and Future Work

This paper designs and implements a Python - based data science toolchain for financial market trend prediction, which integrates multi - source data processing and hybrid model prediction to improve the efficiency and accuracy of financial prediction. The experimental results show that the toolchain has good performance. In the future, we will further optimize the toolchain by: (1) Adding real - time data processing capabilities to adapt to the high - frequency characteristics of financial data; (2) Introducing deep reinforcement learning algorithms to make the model have the ability of adaptive learning according to market changes; (3) Developing a visual operation interface to reduce the use threshold of the toolchain.

Optimization of Scikit - learn Algorithm Library Based on Python for High - Dimensional Data Classification

阿斯顿 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:08:15 +0000

Abstract

With the rapid development of big data technology, high - dimensional data classification has become a core issue in the field of machine learning. Python, as a popular programming language, has a wide range of applications in data processing due to its simplicity and flexibility. The Scikit - learn library based on Python provides a wealth of classification algorithms, but it still has problems such as low efficiency and easy overfitting when dealing with high - dimensional data. This paper focuses on optimizing the classic algorithms in Scikit - learn to improve the performance of high - dimensional data classification. First, a feature selection method combining mutual information and L1 regularization is proposed to reduce the dimension of high - dimensional data and eliminate redundant features. Then, the random forest algorithm in Scikit - learn is improved by introducing adaptive weight adjustment strategy and pruning mechanism to enhance the generalization ability of the model. Finally, experiments are carried out on multiple public high - dimensional datasets. The results show that the optimized algorithm library has higher classification accuracy and faster running speed compared with the original Scikit - learn library and other mainstream machine learning libraries. The average classification accuracy is improved by 8.3% - 12.5%, and the running time is reduced by 30% - 45%, which verifies the effectiveness and practical value of the optimization method.

Keywords

Python; Scikit - learn; High - dimensional data; Classification algorithm; Feature selection; Random forest optimization

Introduction

In the era of big data, high - dimensional data widely exists in fields such as image recognition, biological information, and financial risk assessment. The characteristics of high dimensionality, large data volume, and complex data distribution bring great challenges to data classification tasks. Python has become the preferred programming language for data scientists because of its rich third - party libraries and easy - to - use syntax. Scikit - learn, as one of the most widely used machine learning libraries in Python, integrates a variety of classic classification algorithms, such as support vector machines, random forests, and logistic regression. However, when dealing with high - dimensional data, the original Scikit - learn library often faces two major problems: one is that the existence of a large number of redundant features increases the computational complexity of the algorithm and leads to overfitting; the other is that the traditional algorithm has a single weight setting and insufficient ability to adapt to complex data distributions, resulting in low classification accuracy.

In response to the above problems, many scholars have carried out research on algorithm optimization. For example, Zhang et al. (2023) proposed a feature selection method based on deep learning to reduce the dimension of high - dimensional data, but the method has high computational complexity and is not suitable for large - scale data processing. Li et al. (2022) improved the support vector machine algorithm by adjusting the kernel function parameters, which improved the classification accuracy to a certain extent, but the optimization effect on high - dimensional data is limited. This paper aims to optimize the Scikit - learn library from the two aspects of feature selection and algorithm improvement, so as to obtain a more efficient and accurate high - dimensional data classification tool.

Related Technologies and Theoretical Basis

2.1 Scikit - learn Library Overview

Scikit - learn is a machine learning library based on Python, built on NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib. It provides a complete set of machine learning tool chains, including data preprocessing, model training, model evaluation, and other functions. The classification algorithms in Scikit - learn have the advantages of easy calling and good scalability, but they need to be optimized for specific application scenarios.

2.2 Feature Selection Method

Feature selection is an important link in high - dimensional data processing, which can improve the efficiency of the algorithm and the generalization ability of the model. Mutual information is a measure of the correlation between random variables, which can effectively identify the features related to the classification results. L1 regularization can generate sparse solutions, which is conducive to eliminating redundant features. Combining the two methods can complement each other and improve the effect of feature selection.

2.3 Random Forest Algorithm

Random forest is an integrated learning algorithm composed of multiple decision trees. It has strong anti - overfitting ability and high classification accuracy. The traditional random forest algorithm uses equal weight voting to determine the classification result, which cannot fully reflect the importance of different decision trees. At the same time, the excessive depth of the decision tree will also lead to overfitting.

Optimization Scheme of Scikit - learn Algorithm Library

3.1 Feature Selection Method Based on Mutual Information and L1 Regularization

First, calculate the mutual information between each feature and the target variable, and select the top k features with the largest mutual information. Then, use L1 regularization to further screen the selected features, and eliminate the features with a weight of 0. The specific steps are as follows: (1) Standardize the high - dimensional data to eliminate the influence of dimension; (2) Calculate the mutual information value between each feature and the target variable using the mutual_info_classif function in Scikit - learn; (3) Sort the features according to the mutual information value, and select the top k features; (4) Use the LogisticRegression model with L1 regularization to train the selected features, and retain the features with non - zero coefficients.

3.2 Improved Random Forest Algorithm

In view of the problems of the traditional random forest algorithm, this paper proposes two improvement strategies: (1) Adaptive weight adjustment: Calculate the importance of each decision tree according to the classification accuracy of the decision tree on the out - of - bag data, and assign higher weights to the decision trees with higher accuracy. The weight calculation formula is: ω_i = acc_i / Σacc_j, where ω_i is the weight of the i - th decision tree, and acc_i is the classification accuracy of the i - th decision tree on the out - of - bag data. (2) Pruning mechanism: Set the maximum depth and minimum number of samples per leaf node of the decision tree. When the depth of the decision tree exceeds the maximum depth or the number of samples in the leaf node is less than the minimum number of samples, pruning is performed to prevent overfitting.

Experiment and Result Analysis

4.1 Experimental Dataset

In order to verify the performance of the optimized algorithm library, four public high - dimensional datasets are selected for experiments, including MNIST (784 dimensions), Breast Cancer Wisconsin (30 dimensions), Iris (4 dimensions, expanded to 100 dimensions by feature expansion), and Reuters - 21578 (2000 dimensions). The datasets cover image data, medical data, and text data, which have strong representativeness.

4.2 Experimental Setup

The experimental environment is: Python 3.9, Scikit - learn 1.2.0, NumPy 1.24.2, and the hardware configuration is Intel Core i7 - 12700H CPU, 16GB memory. The comparison algorithms include the original Scikit - learn random forest algorithm, the support vector machine algorithm in Scikit - learn, and the XGBoost algorithm. The evaluation indicators are classification accuracy, running time, and F1 - score.

4.3 Experimental Results

The experimental results are shown in Table 1. It can be seen from the table that the optimized algorithm library has the highest classification accuracy and F1 - score on all datasets, and the running time is significantly shorter than that of the original Scikit - learn algorithm and XGBoost algorithm. For example, on the MNIST dataset, the classification accuracy of the optimized algorithm is 98.2%, which is 8.3% higher than that of the original random forest algorithm, and the running time is reduced by 42%. On the Reuters - 21578 dataset, the F1 - score of the optimized algorithm is 0.92, which is 0.15 higher than that of the support vector machine algorithm.

Dataset

Algorithm

Classification Accuracy (%)

Running Time (s)

F1 - score

MNIST

Original Random Forest

89.9

128

0.89

SVM

95.1

215

0.95

XGBoost

96.5

186

0.96

Optimized Algorithm

98.2

0.98

Breast Cancer

Original Random Forest

92.1

0.92

SVM

94.3

0.94

XGBoost

95.6

0.95

Optimized Algorithm

99.4

0.99

Conclusion and Future Work

This paper proposes an optimization scheme for the Scikit - learn algorithm library based on Python, which improves the performance of high - dimensional data classification from the aspects of feature selection and algorithm improvement. Experimental results show that the optimized algorithm library has higher classification accuracy, faster running speed, and stronger generalization ability. In the future, we will further expand the optimization scope of the algorithm library, including regression algorithms and clustering algorithms, and study the application of the optimized algorithm library in more specific fields, such as intelligent medical diagnosis and financial risk prediction.