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Objectives:
- Students will gain a basic understanding of how to work through a problem using a larger dataset and some basic Machine Learning.
Complete the following
Go to Kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/ and create a free account.
You will be going through the Titanic tutorial. https://www.kaggle.com/code/alexisbcook/titanic-tutorial
References, a video, a PowerPoint and some notes are available at my website https://www.aholdengouveia.name/IntroData/bigdata.html
Please include Answers to the following questions
- What do you think of the tutorial?
- How difficult did you find this activity?
- Will you be trying another challenge on Kaggle? If yes, which one?
- Were you able to improve on the given code?
- What was your accuracy? (This might also show up as "score")
- Do you have any ideas on how you could improve that?
Deliverables
A text document with the answers to the questions, and a screenshot of your submission onto the leaderboard.