23 Case study 5 solution

This section covers

  • Cleaning data
  • Exploring networks
  • Feature engineering
  • Optimizing machine learning models

FriendHook is a popular social networking app designed for college campuses. Students can connect as friends in the FriendHook network. A recommendation engine emails users weekly with new friend suggestions based on their existing connections; students can ignore these recommendations, or they can send out friend requests. We have been provided with one week’s worth of data pertaining to friend recommendations and student responses. That data is stored in the friendhook/Observations.csv file. We’re provided with two additional files: friendhook/Profiles.csv and friendhook/Friendships.csv, containing user profile ...

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