Template Credit: Adapted from a template made available by Dr. Jason Brownlee of Machine Learning Mastery.

SUMMARY: The project aims to construct a predictive model using various machine learning algorithms and document the end-to-end steps using a template. The Kaggle Tabular Playground Series September 2021 dataset is a binary classification situation where we are trying to predict one of the two possible outcomes.

INTRODUCTION: INTRODUCTION: Kaggle wants to provide an approachable environment for relatively new people in their data science journey. Since January 2021, they have hosted playground-style competitions on Kaggle with fun but less complex, tabular datasets. The dataset used for this competition is synthetic but based on the real Titanic dataset and generated using a CTGAN. The statistical properties of this dataset are very similar to the original Titanic dataset, but there is no shortcut to cheat by using public labels for predictions.

ANALYSIS: After a series of tuning trials, the best AutoKeras model processed the training dataset with a ROC/AUC score of 0.5907. When we processed the test dataset with the final model, the model achieved a ROC/AUC score of 0.5932.

CONCLUSION: In this iteration, the AutoKeras model appeared to be a suitable algorithm for modeling this dataset.

Dataset Used: Kaggle Tabular Playground 2021 September Data Set

Dataset ML Model: Binary classification with numerical and categorical attributes

Dataset Reference: https://www.kaggle.com/c/tabular-playground-series-sep-2021

One potential source of performance benchmark: https://www.kaggle.com/c/tabular-playground-series-sep-2021/leaderboard

The HTML formatted report can be found here on GitHub.