Enter the Titanic Kaggle competition

Description

Enter the Titanic competition on Kaggle used to help new entrants learn about classification and using Kaggle.

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should understand:

• Feature vectors
• Basic classification

Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should be able to:

• Use Pandas to generate CSV files
• Perform classification by hand

Details

Deliverables

• A Git repo called titanic containing at least:
  • README.md file explaining how to run your project
  • a requirements.txt file

Requirements

• No PEP8 or Pyflakes warnings or errors

Normal Mode

Go to Kaggle and sign up for an account. Once you have signed up, read through the Titanic competition.

Read through the first three "Getting Started" sections (Excel, Python, Python II). Make one or more entries to the competition.

Create a submission that gives you a public score greater than or equal to 0.78.

Use the included IPython Notebook as a starting point to get to ~78%

Hard Mode

In addition to normal mode requirements figure out how to predict > .90