NYC Data Science Academy

They are currently in the NYC Data Science Academy 12 week full time Data Science Bootcamp program taking place between January 11th to April 1st, 2016. This post is based on their fourth class project - Machine learning(due on the 8th week of the program). The Higgs Boson Challenge, hosted by Kaggle, asked the data scientist community to utilize machine learning to accurately predict if a particle was a Higgs-Boson particle or not; more specifically if a signal detected was either a'tau tau decay of a Higgs boson' or just'background'. The datasets provided were the training and test set with 250,000 and 550,000 observations, respectively. The training set contained all the same features as the test with two additional columns of'Label' and'Weight' that gave the accurate classifiers to help train our models.