Can Machine Learning predict Poverty? – Towards Data Science

World Bank hosted its poverty prediction competition on the competition hosting website drivendata.org. The link to the competition is here. We decided to try out our Machine Learning skills on this dataset. Most regular work in ParallelDots is around three themes: Visual Analytics on images and videos, Healthcare AI and NLP, all three of which are solved using Deep Learning techniques. This competition was a chance to try out something new and build our internal codebase to handle tabular datasets like what we had in the competition.