?The Challenge
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most infamous shipwrecks in history.
On April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage, the widely considered “unsinkable” RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough lifeboats for everyone onboard, resulting in the death of 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew.
While there was some element of luck involved in surviving, it seems some groups of people were more likely to survive than others.
In this challenge, we ask you to build a predictive model that answers the question: “what sorts of people were more likely to survive?” using passenger data (ie name, age, gender, socio-economic class, etc).
# This Python 3 environment comes with many helpful analytics libraries installed
# It is defined by the kaggle/python Docker image: https://github.com/kaggle/docker-python
# For example, here's several helpful packages to load
import numpy as np # linear algebra
import pandas as pd # data processing, CSV file I/O (e.g. pd.read_csv)
# Input data files are available in the read-only "../input/" directory
# For example, running this (by clicking run or pressing Shift+Enter) will list all files under the input directory
import os
for dirname, _, filenames in os.walk('/kaggle/input'):
for filename in filenames:
print(os.path.join(dirname, filename))
# You can write up to 20GB to the current directory (/kaggle/working/) that gets preserved as output when you create a version using "Save & Run All"
# You can also write temporary files to /kaggle/temp/, but they won't be saved outside of the current session
/kaggle/input/titanic/train.csv
/kaggle/input/titanic/test.csv
/kaggle/input/titanic/gender_submission.csv
In?[2]:
train_data = pd.read_csv("/kaggle/input/titanic/train.csv")
train_data.head()
Out[2]:
| PassengerId | Survived | Pclass | Name | Sex | Age | SibSp | Parch | Ticket | Fare | Cabin | Embarked |
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0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | Braund, Mr. Owen Harris | male | 22.0 | 1 | 0 | A/5 21171 | 7.2500 | NaN | S |
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1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Cumings, Mrs. John Bradley (Florence Briggs Th... | female | 38.0 | 1 | 0 | PC 17599 | 71.2833 | C85 | C |
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2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | Heikkinen, Miss. Laina | female | 26.0 | 0 | 0 | STON/O2. 3101282 | 7.9250 | NaN | S |
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3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Futrelle, Mrs. Jacques Heath (Lily May Peel) | female | 35.0 | 1 | 0 | 113803 | 53.1000 | C123 | S |
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4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | Allen, Mr. William Henry | male | 35.0 | 0 | 0 | 373450 | 8.0500 | NaN | S |
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In?[3]:
test_data = pd.read_csv("/kaggle/input/titanic/test.csv")
test_data.head()
Out[3]:
| PassengerId | Pclass | Name | Sex | Age | SibSp | Parch | Ticket | Fare | Cabin | Embarked |
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0 | 892 | 3 | Kelly, Mr. James | male | 34.5 | 0 | 0 | 330911 | 7.8292 | NaN | Q |
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1 | 893 | 3 | Wilkes, Mrs. James (Ellen Needs) | female | 47.0 | 1 | 0 | 363272 | 7.0000 | NaN | S |
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2 | 894 | 2 | Myles, Mr. Thomas Francis | male | 62.0 | 0 | 0 | 240276 | 9.6875 | NaN | Q |
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3 | 895 | 3 | Wirz, Mr. Albert | male | 27.0 | 0 | 0 | 315154 | 8.6625 | NaN | S |
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4 | 896 | 3 | Hirvonen, Mrs. Alexander (Helga E Lindqvist) | female | 22.0 | 1 | 1 | 3101298 | 12.2875 | NaN | S |
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In?[4]:
women = train_data.loc[train_data.Sex == 'female']["Survived"]
rate_women = sum(women)/len(women)
print("% of women who survived:", rate_women)
% of women who survived: 0.7420382165605095
In?[5]:
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
y = train_data["Survived"]
features = ["Pclass", "Sex", "SibSp", "Parch"]
X = pd.get_dummies(train_data[features])
X_test = pd.get_dummies(test_data[features])
model = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, max_depth=5, random_state=1)
model.fit(X, y)
predictions = model.predict(X_test)
output = pd.DataFrame({'PassengerId': test_data.PassengerId, 'Survived': predictions})
output.to_csv('submission.csv', index=False)
print("Your submission was successfully saved!")
Your submission was successfully saved!
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