Predicting Employee Productivity Using Tree Models

  • Guided Project
  • 0.4 hours
  • Intermediate
  • Python

Practice using decision trees and random forests in Python to predict garment worker productivity from real data.

Overview

In this project, you'll assume the role of a data scientist working with a garment factory dataset to predict employee productivity. Using Python and the scikit-learn library, you'll clean the data, build a decision tree model, evaluate its performance, and explain the results to a non-technical audience. This project allows you to showcase your skills in data preparation, machine learning modeling with decision trees and random forests, and communicating data-driven insights. You'll develop a robust model to identify the key factors driving productivity, providing actionable recommendations to improve factory operations. Objective: Leverage decision tree and random forest algorithms to predict garment worker productivity and deliver insights to guide factory enhancements.

What You'll Learn

  • Clean and adapt a dataset for use in a decision tree
  • Build and visualize a decision tree to determine key features
  • Evaluate your trees using different metrics
  • Optimize trees by adjusting their parameters
  • Explain the results of a tree model to a non-technical audience

Before You Start

  • Preprocessing data for machine learning in scikit-learn
  • Building and visualizing decision trees in scikit-learn
  • Evaluating machine learning model performance using metrics
  • Optimizing models by tuning hyperparameters

Project Steps

9 steps

  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Dataset Exploration
  3. 3 Dataset Cleaning (I)
  4. 4 Dataset Cleaning (II)
  5. 5 Building the Tree
  6. 6 Visualizing and Evaluating the Tree
  7. 7 Explaining the Tree
  8. 8 Using Random Forest
  9. 9 Next Steps

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