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