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Predict Adult Income

Advanced classification project · 26 steps · Logistic regression · random forest

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Build a realistic income classifier on messy census-style tabular data, then evaluate threshold and error tradeoffs.

Data

Uses local copies of UCI Adult files (adult.data/adult.test).

Task

Work through TODOs in order: clean data quirks, build pipelines, compare models, and analyze mistakes.

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Dataset credit: Adult dataset by B. Becker and R. Kohavi (UCI Machine Learning Repository, DOI: 10.24432/C5XW20), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Dataset page: UCI Adult.