Predicting Flights Delay Using Supervised Learning, Logistic Regression

In this post, we'll use a supervised machine learning technique called logistic regression to predict delayed flights. But before we proceed, I like to give condolences to the family of the the victims of the Germanwings tragedy. Note: This is a common data set in the machine learning community to test out algorithms and models given it's publicly available and have sizable data. In this blog, we will look at small sample snapsot(2201 flights in January 2004). In another post, we can explore using Big Data technologies such as Hadoop MapReduce or Spark machine learning libraries to do large scale predictive analytics and data mining.