The use of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) is increasing among adolescents. This is problematic since consuming nicotine at an early age can cause harmful effects in developing teenager's brain and health. Additionally, the use of e-cigarette has a possibility of leading to the use of cigarettes, which is more severe. There were many researches about e-cigarette and cigarette that mostly focused on finding and analyzing causes of smoking using conventional statistics. However, there is a lack of research on developing prediction models, which is more applicable to anti-smoking campaign, about e-cigarette and cigarette. In this paper, we research the prediction models that can be used to predict an individual e-cigarette user's (including non-e-cigarette users) intention to smoke cigarettes, so that one can be early informed about the risk of going down the path of smoking cigarettes. To construct the prediction models, five machine learning (ML) algorithms are exploited and tested for their accuracy in predicting the intention to smoke cigarettes among never smokers using data from the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). In our investigation, the Gradient Boosting Classifier, one of the prediction models, shows the highest accuracy out of all the other models. Also, with the best prediction model, we made a public website that enables users to input information to predict their intentions of smoking cigarettes.

A decision tree is a useful machine learning algorithm used for both regression and classification tasks. The name "decision tree" comes from the fact that the algorithm keeps dividing the dataset down into smaller and smaller portions until the data has been divided into single instances, which are then classified. If you were to visualize the results of the algorithm, the way the categories are divided would resemble a tree and many leaves. That's a quick definition of a decision tree, but let's take a deep dive into how decision trees work. Having a better understanding of how decision trees operate, as well as their use cases, will assist you in knowing when to utilize them during your machine learning projects.

On a meetup that I attended a couple of months ago in Sydney, I was introduced to an online machine learning course by fast.ai. I never paid any attention to it then. This week, while working on a Kaggle competition, and looking for ways to improve my score, I came across this course again. I decided to give it a try. Here is what I learned from the first lecture, which is a 1 hour 17 minutes video on INTRODUCTION TO RANDOM FOREST.

Anyone who has built a machine learning model will know the feeling… "How do I get my masterpiece out of this python notebook and in front of the world?". Answering this question is rarely simple and with a multitude of different options to consider, this can be a huge source of both technical debt for data science teams and dependency on engineering resource. At HeadBox we have developed a lean deployment pipeline for simple machine learning models that are used in our venue recommendation engines. Here I will demonstrate the deployment of a simple classification model using three Serverless lambda functions, pulling data from a data warehouse such as Snowflake, posting results to S3 buckets and DynamoDB tables, as well as posting daily performance updates to slack. Our first Serverless function will be used to pull training data from Snowflake, perform feature engineering and train a simple decision tree model.

The course is created on the basis of three pillars of learning: Know (Study) Do (Practice) Review (Self feedback) Know We have created a set of concise and comprehensive videos to teach you all the Excel related skills you will need in your professional career. Do With each lecture, we have provide a practice sheet to complement the learning in the lecture video. These sheets are carefully designed to further clarify the concepts and help you with implementing the concepts on practical problems faced on-the-job. Review Check if you have learnt the concepts by comparing your solutions provided by us. Ask questions in the discussion board if you face any difficulty.

Decision trees are often used while implementing machine learning algorithms. The hierarchical structure of a decision tree leads us to the final outcome by traversing through the nodes of the tree. Each node consists of an attribute or feature which is further split into more nodes as we move down the tree. But how do we decide which attribute/feature should be placed at the root node, which features will act as internal nodes or leaf nodes? To decide this, and how to split the tree, we use splitting measures like Gini Index, Information Gain, etc.

In simple words, Decision Tree Classifier is a Supervised Machine learning algorithm which is used for supervised classification problems. Under the hood in decision tree, each node asks a True or False question about one of the features and moves left or right with respect to the decision. You can learn more about Decision Tree from here. We are going to use a Machine Learning algorithms to find the patterns on the historical data of the students and classify their knowledge level, and for that we are going to write our own simple Decision Tree Classifier from scratch by using Python Programming Language. Though i am going to explain everything along the way, it will not be a basic level explanation.

The normal life cycle of a machine learning model includes several stages, see Figure 1. There are countless online courses and articles about preparing the data and building models but there is much less material about model deployment. Yet, it is precisely at this stage where all the hard work of data preparation and model building starts to pay off. This is where models are used to score (or get predictions for) new cases and extract the benefits. My intent here is to fill this gap, so that you will be fully prepared to deploy your model using time tested resources.

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Our Random Forest model predicts a 73% probability of the Oakland Raiders keeping it within the 4.5 points being offered at Westgate.