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Practical Big Data Analytics
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Practical Big Data Analytics

by Nataraj Dasgupta
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Vehicle Mileage, Number Recognition and other examples

Given a dataset containing information on miles per gallon, number of cylinders, and such of various cars, can we predict what the value for miles per gallon would be if we only had the other values available?

In this case, our outcome is mpg and we are using the other variables of cyl (Cylinders), hp (Horsepower), gear (number of gears), and others to build a model that can then be applied against a dataset where the values for mpg are marked as MISSING. The model reads the information in these columns in the first five rows of the data and, based on that information, predicts what the value for mpg would be in the other rows, as shown in the following image:

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