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CAPSTONE PROJECT: BAP-R

PROJECTTITLE:

PredictsurvivalofpassengersontheTitanicship.

OBJECTIVE:

Performtheanalysisofwhatsortsofpeoplewere likely tosurviveusing the toolsof

machinelearningtaughtduringtheBAP-Rcourse.

DESCRIPTION:

OnApril15,1912,duringhermaidenvoyage,theTitanicsankaftercollidingwithan

iceberg, killing 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew. This tragedy shocked the

internationalcommunityandleadtobettersafetyregulationsforships.

Oneofthereasonsthattheshipwreckleadtosuchlossoflifewasthattherewerenot

enoughlifeboatsforthepassengersandcrew.Althoughtherewassomeelementofluck

involvedinsurvivingthesinking,somegroupsofpeopleweremorelikelytosurvivethan

others,suchaswomen,children,andtheupper-class.

EVALUATION:

n Afterdividingthedatarandomlyintotwogroups,a 'trainingset'anda 'testset' in

70:30ratio.Generatepredictionson the testdatasetby firstbuildyourmodelon

trainingdataset.

n Foreachpassengerinthetestset,youmustpredictwhetherornottheysurvivedthe

sinking(0fordeceased,1forsurvived).

n Yourevaluationisbasedisbasedontheoverallaccuracyofthepredictionsi.e.

n OverallAccuracy=

n No. of Survived Accurately Predicted as Survived + No. of deceased Accurately

Predictedasdeceased/TotalNumberofPassengers.

n YouneedtosubmittheactualRcode(withcommentsoneachstepperformed)

n Youneedtosubmitawriteuponthecapstoneprojectmethodology,stepsperformed,

result&interpretation.

n Youmustaminimumoverallaccuracyof60%intestdataset to passthecapstone

project.

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DATASETDESCRIPTION:

VARIABLEDESCRIPTIONS:

survival Survival

(0=No;1=Yes)

pclass PassengerClass

(1=1st;2=2nd;3=3rd)

name Name

sex Sex

age Age

sibsp NumberofSiblings/SpousesAboard

parch NumberofParents/ChildrenAboard

ticket TicketNumber

fare PassengerFare

cabin Cabin

embarked PortofEmbarkation

(C=Cherbourg;Q=Queenstown;S=Southampton)