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Predicting Loan Defaults Using scikit-learn and H2O

prerequisites
intermediate Python • beginner scikit-learn • pandas • Matplotlib • plotting and visualization
skills learned
xxploratory data analysis • working with pandas DataFrames • feature engineering • machine learning modeling with random forests • optimizing machine learning • model evaluation and comparison • deploying a model in a Python module
Nate George
4 weeks · 8-10 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE

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The Python data science ecosystem is a powerful and open-source toolset utilized daily by thousands of data scientists and machine learning engineers. But with so many Python machine learning libraries to choose from, which tool works best for your needs?

In this liveProject, you’ll go hands-on with the scikit-learn and H2O frameworks, using them both to build working machine learning classifiers. You’ll use raw financial data and the tried-and-true random forest model to predict the chance of financial loan defaults. Once you’ve built your models, you'll compare implementations to find out which works best and evaluate your results against existing hard-coded tools.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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Nathan George
Nate George started his career studying LEDs for his Ph.D. and working on solar cell manufacturing. He then leveraged his programming and mathematics experience to move to data science. Nate has been teaching and developing several data science and math courses at Regis University since 2017, mentors students at Udacity, and has developed a Python machine learning course at DataCamp. Nate's expertise includes data engineering (database technologies such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL and cloud technologies such as GCP and AWS), data science (Python, R, statistics), and machine learning.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for aspiring data scientists and machine learning engineers who want to practice their skills in a real-world environment. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with:

TOOLS
  • Intermediate Python
  • Beginner Jupyter Notebook
  • Beginner Matplotlib
  • Beginner pandas
  • Beginner scikit-learn
TECHNIQUES
  • Beginner Plotting and visualization
  • Beginner Data munging with pandas

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll learn core skills of data science and machine learning that are easy to transfer across roles and industries.

  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Working with pandas DataFrames
  • Machine learning feature engineering
  • Machine learning modeling with random forests
  • Optimizing ML and random forest models
  • Model evaluation and comparison
  • Deploying a model in a Python module

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