Olympics medals prediction for future events by Inocentiu Moga https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4 The goal of the project is to predict the number of medals a country will get based on current and historical data. en-us 2023-01-31 16:42:46 UTC 2025-12-23 08:54:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Hypothesis inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463333151 Predicting the performance of a country using historical data.

]]> 2023-01-31 16:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463333151 Searching for a dataset inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463335357 I selected the "120 years of Olympic history: athletes and results" from kaggle.]]> 2023-01-31 16:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463335357 Data Preparation inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463343269 The data went through a initial preparation and cleaning and then exported to a csv file.]]> 2023-01-31 16:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463343269 Data Exploration inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463355538 After preparing the data I went through it in order to see what I can use and if I have missed anything during the data preparation step.]]> 2023-01-31 17:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463355538 Data Cleaning for ML inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463361251 I noticed that for some entries the Prev Medals field was null, probably because the countries did not participate in the previous year, so I proceeded with dropping those rows.]]> 2023-01-31 17:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463361251 Finding an Error Metric inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463375493 The Error Metric I used is the Mean Absolute Error(MAE), a measure of errors between paired observations that express the same phenomenon.]]> 2023-01-31 17:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463375493 Splitting the data in test and training data inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463378291 2023-01-31 17:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463378291 Training a model inocentiumoga99 https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463385727 For this project I have selected the linear regression model, which describes the relation between a dependant variable and one or more independent variables.
The equation I used for the model: Y=a1y1+a2y2+B]]> 2023-01-31 17:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/inocentiumoga99/fmds2pri3esq7ra4/wish/2463385727