Predictive Modeling: Picking the best model – Towards Data Science

Whether you are working on predicting data in an office setting or just competing in a Kaggle competition, it's important to test out different models to find the best fit for the data you are working with. I recently had the opportunity to compete with some very smart colleagues in a private Kaggle competition predicting faulty water pumps in Tanzania. I ran the following models after doing some data cleaning and I'll show you the results. First, we need to take a look at the data we're working with. In this particular data set, the features were in a separate file than the labels.