Supervised Learning
Project: Finding Donors for CharityML
Install
This project requires Python 2.7 and the following Python libraries installed:
You will also need to have software installed to run and execute an iPython Notebook
We recommend students install Anaconda, a pre-packaged Python distribution that contains all of the necessary libraries and software for this project.
Data
The modified census dataset consists of approximately 32,000 data points, with each datapoint having 13 features. This dataset is a modified version of the dataset published in the paper "Scaling Up the Accuracy of Naive-Bayes Classifiers: a Decision-Tree Hybrid", by Ron Kohavi. You may find this paper online, with the original dataset hosted on UCI.
Features
age
: Ageworkclass
: Working Class (Private, Self-emp-not-inc, Self-emp-inc, Federal-gov, Local-gov, State-gov, Without-pay, Never-worked)education_level
: Level of Education (Bachelors, Some-college, 11th, HS-grad, Prof-school, Assoc-acdm, Assoc-voc, 9th, 7th-8th, 12th, Masters, 1st-4th, 10th, Doctorate, 5th-6th, Preschool)education-num
: Number of educational years completedmarital-status
: Marital status (Married-civ-spouse, Divorced, Never-married, Separated, Widowed, Married-spouse-absent, Married-AF-spouse)occupation
: Work Occupation (Tech-support, Craft-repair, Other-service, Sales, Exec-managerial, Prof-specialty, Handlers-cleaners, Machine-op-inspct, Adm-clerical, Farming-fishing, Transport-moving, Priv-house-serv, Protective-serv, Armed-Forces)relationship
: Relationship Status (Wife, Own-child, Husband, Not-in-family, Other-relative, Unmarried)race
: Race (White, Asian-Pac-Islander, Amer-Indian-Eskimo, Other, Black)sex
: Sex (Female, Male)capital-gain
: Monetary Capital Gainscapital-loss
: Monetary Capital Losseshours-per-week
: Average Hours Per Week Workednative-country
: Native Country (United-States, Cambodia, England, Puerto-Rico, Canada, Germany, Outlying-US(Guam-USVI-etc), India, Japan, Greece, South, China, Cuba, Iran, Honduras, Philippines, Italy, Poland, Jamaica, Vietnam, Mexico, Portugal, Ireland, France, Dominican-Republic, Laos, Ecuador, Taiwan, Haiti, Columbia, Hungary, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Scotland, Thailand, Yugoslavia, El-Salvador, Trinadad&Tobago, Peru, Hong, Holand-Netherlands)
Target Variable
income
: Income Class (<=50K, >50K)