Data Science: A Kaggle Walkthrough – Creating a Model – Brett Romero

This article is Part VI in a series looking at data science and machine learning by walking through a Kaggle competition. If you have not done so already, you are strongly encouraged to go back and read the earlier parts – (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V). Continuing on the walkthrough, in this part we build the model that will predict the first booking destination country for each user based on the dataset created in the earlier parts. The first step to building a model is to decide what type of algorithm to use. Below we look at some of the options.