COSC 410LA S25 Lab 3: Classification Competition

This Lab is due Friday, Feb 14, 2025 at 11:59PM.

Introduction

The goal of this lab to expand on your familarity with a standard machine learning pipeline. You’ll explore a weather prediction data set. Then, you’ll implement a function for fitting a classification model of your choosing on this dataset. By completing the lab, you will demonstrate that you understand

• how to preprocess data in a standard ML pipeline
• how to select a good model for your task
• the ability to hyperparameter tune
• how to work with leaderboards

Provided Files

• Lab3.pdf: This file
• Lab3.ipynb: Code scaffold for the lab
• Leaderboard.py: Code scaffold that you will need for the leaderboard
• Lab3_train.csv: Training examples with labels
• Lab3_valid.csv: Validation examples with labels

Good luck :)