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 Steel Plates Faults dataset is a multi-class modeling situation where we attempt to predict one of several (more than two) possible outcomes.

INTRODUCTION: This dataset comes from research by Semeion, Research Center of Sciences of Communication. The original aim of the research was to correctly classify the type of surface defects in stainless steel plates, with six types of possible defects (plus “other”). The Input vector was made up of 27 indicators that approximately the geometric shape of the defect and its outline. According to the research paper, Semeion was commissioned by the Centro Sviluppo Materiali (Italy) for this task, and therefore it is not possible to provide details on the nature of the 27 indicators used as Input vectors or the types of the six classes of defects.

ANALYSIS: The average performance of the cross-validated TensorFlow models achieved an accuracy benchmark of 76.51%.

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

Dataset Used: Steel Plates Faults

Dataset ML Model: Multi-Class classification with numerical features

Dataset Reference: https://archive-beta.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/steel+plates+faults

One source of potential performance benchmarks: https://www.kaggle.com/uciml/faulty-steel-plates

The HTML formatted report can be found here on GitHub.