Data Science Coding Challenge: Loan Default Prediction (Coursera)

Data Science Coding Challenge: Loan Default Prediction (Coursera)

In this coding challenge, you'll compete with other learners to achieve the highest prediction accuracy on a machine learning problem. You'll use Python and a Jupyter Notebook to work with a real-world dataset and build a prediction or classification model.

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In this coding challenge, you'll compete with other learners to achieve the highest prediction accuracy on a machine learning problem. You'll use Python and a Jupyter Notebook to work with a real-world dataset and build a prediction or classification model.

Project plan
This project requires you to independently complete the following steps:
• Importing and preprocessing data
• Analyze the data
• Build machine learning models
• Evaluate machine learning models

Objectives
Load, clean, analyze, process, and visualize data using Python and Jupyter Notebooks
Produce an end-to-end machine learning prediction model using Python and Jupyter Notebooks

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