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Sunday Lesson

·1 min
Technical
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Illustration of a person in a blanket with a coffee mug watching a machine learning dashboard by a snowy window

After finishing the assignment late Saturday night, I took a moment to reflect on my progress. It was a valuable opportunity to document the key concepts and insights I gained from the experience.

The Machine learning journey: From Raw to Predictions
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The two quests, or rather two parallel journeys I embarked on; while trying to solve the assignment.

  1. Classification: Predict if someone earns > 5-K ( Yes/No) [A binary decison]
  2. Regression: Predict exact property values; a continuous number.

Look at the blog I wrote here.

Act 1: Gathering the data
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It started off with using UCIML Repo, to get the adult dataset.

from ucimlrepo import fetch_ucirepo
adult = fetch_ucirepo(name="adult")

fetch_ucirepo() is your librarian, fetching the exact dataset you need

Sample data showed the contents besides what I could gather from the official documentation.

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