spatial-kfold

spatial-kfold: A Python Package for Spatial Resampling Toward More Reliable Cross-Validation in Spatial Studies.

spatial-kfold is a python library for performing spatial resampling to ensure more robust cross-validation in spatial studies. It offers spatial clustering and block resampling technique with user-friendly parameters to customize the resampling. It enables users to conduct a "Leave Region Out" cross-validation, which can be useful for evaluating the model's generalization to new locations as well as improving the reliability of feature selection and hyperparameter tuning in spatial studies.

spatial-kfold can be integrated easily with scikit-learn's LeaveOneGroupOut cross-validation technique. This integration enables you to further leverage the resampled spatial data for performing feature selection and hyperparameter tuning.

Main Features

spatial-kfold allow conducting "Leave Region Out" using two spatial resampling techniques:

• 1. Spatial clustering with KMeans or BisectingKMeans
• 2. Spatial blocks
  • Random blocks
  • Continuous blocks
    • tb-lr : top-bottom, left-right
    • bt-rl : bottom-top, right-left

Installation

spatial-kfold can be installed from PyPI

pip install spatial-kfold

Example

1. Spatial clustering with KMeans

import geopandas as gpd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import cm
import matplotlib.colors as colors
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap, LinearSegmentedColormap
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import inset_axes

from spatialkfold.blocks import spatial_blocks 
from spatialkfold.datasets import load_ames
from spatialkfold.clusters import spatial_kfold_clusters 

# Load ames data
ames = load_ames()
ames_prj = ames.copy().to_crs(ames.estimate_utm_crs())
ames_prj['id'] = range(len(ames_prj))

# 1. Spatial cluster resampling 
ames_clusters = spatial_kfold_clusters (gdf=ames_prj, name='id', nfolds=10, algorithm='kmeans', random_state=569) 

# Get the 'tab20' colormap
cols_tab = cm.get_cmap('tab20', 10)
# Generate a list of colors from the colormap
cols = [cols_tab(i) for i in range(10)]
# create a color ramp
color_ramp = ListedColormap(cols)


fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,1 , figsize=(9, 4)) 
ames_clusters.plot(column='folds', ax=ax, cmap= color_ramp, markersize = 2, legend=True)
ax.set_title('Spatially Clustered Folds\nUsing KMeans')
plt.show()

2. Spatial blocks

# 2.1 spatial resampled random blocks  

# create 10 random blocks 
ames_rnd_blocks = spatial_blocks(gdf=ames_prj, width=1500, height=1500, 
                                 method='random', nfolds=10, 
                                 random_state=135)

# resample the ames data with the prepared blocks 
ames_res_rnd_blk = gpd.overlay (ames_prj, ames_rnd_blocks)

# plot the resampled blocks
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,2 , figsize=(10, 6)) 

# plot 1
ames_rnd_blocks.plot(column='folds',cmap=color_ramp, ax=ax[0] ,lw=0.7, legend=False)
ames_prj.plot(ax=ax[0],  markersize = 1, color = 'r')
ax[0].set_title('Random Blocks Folds')

# plot 2
ames_rnd_blocks.plot(facecolor="none",edgecolor='grey', ax=ax[1] ,lw=0.7, legend=False)
ames_res_rnd_blk.plot(column='folds', cmap=color_ramp, legend=False, ax=ax[1], markersize=3)
ax[1].set_title('Spatially Resampled\nrandom blocks')


im1 = ax[1].scatter(ames_res_rnd_blk.geometry.x , ames_res_rnd_blk.geometry.y, c=ames_res_rnd_blk['folds'], cmap=color_ramp, s=5)

axins1 = inset_axes(
    ax[1],
    width="5%",  # width: 5% of parent_bbox width
    height="50%",  # height: 50%
    loc="lower left",
    bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 0, 1, 2),
    bbox_transform=ax[1].transAxes,
    borderpad=0
)
fig.colorbar(im1, cax=axins1,  ticks= range(1,11))

plt.show()

3. Compare Random and Spatial cross validation

Credits

This package was inspired by the following R packages:

• CAST
• spatialsample

Dependencies

This project relies on the following dependencies:

• pandas
• numpy
• geopandas
• shapely
• matplotlib
• scikit-learn

Citation

If you use My Package in your research or work, please cite it using the following entries:

• MLA Style:

Ghariani, Walid. "spatial-kfold: A Python Package for Spatial Resampling Toward More Reliable Cross-Validation in Spatial Studies." 2023. GitHub, https://github.com/WalidGharianiEAGLE/spatial-kfold

• BibTex Style:

@Misc{spatial-kfold,
author = {Walid Ghariani},
title = {spatial-kfold: A Python Package for Spatial Resampling Toward More Reliable Cross-Validation in Spatial Studies},
howpublished = {GitHub},
year = {2023},
url = {https://github.com/WalidGharianiEAGLE/spatial-kfold}
}

Resources

A list of tutorials and resources mainly in R explaining the importance of spatial resampling and spatial cross validation

• Hanna Meyer: "Machine-learning based modelling of spatial and spatio-temporal data"
• Jannes Münchow: "The importance of spatial cross-validation in predictive modeling"
• Julia Silge: Spatial resampling for more reliable model evaluation with geographic data

Bibliography

Meyer, H., Reudenbach, C., Wöllauer, S., Nauss, T. (2019): Importance of spatial predictor variable selection in machine learning applications - Moving from data reproduction to spatial prediction. Ecological Modelling. 411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108815

Schratz, Patrick, et al. "Hyperparameter tuning and performance assessment of statistical and machine-learning algorithms using spatial data." Ecological Modelling 406 (2019): 109-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.06.002

Schratz, Patrick, et al. "mlr3spatiotempcv: Spatiotemporal resampling methods for machine learning in R." arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12674 (2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12674

Valavi, Roozbeh, et al. "blockCV: An r package for generating spatially or environmentally separated folds for k-fold cross-validation of species distribution models." Biorxiv (2018): 357798. https://doi.org/10.1101/357798