Madhavan Mukund



Data Mining and Machine Learning,
Jan-Apr 2020

Assignment 2: Classification

10 April, 2020
Due 20 April 26 April, 2020



The Task

The "Bank Marketing Data Set" from the UCI Machine Learning Repository is related with direct marketing campaigns (phone calls) of a Portuguese banking institution.

The classification goal is to predict if the client will subscribe a term deposit (variable y). You can find a description of the attributes at the original UCI URL, https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Bank+Marketing.

The UCI page contains multiple versions of the data, so the version that you need to work with is here:

In this assignment you have to build three classifiers for this data set: a decision tree, a naive Bayesian classifier, and a support vector machine. Do 10-fold cross validation to evaluate your classifier.


Solving the Task

  • You can use any programming language, including Python and R. You can make use of standard packages for analytics and machine learning. Clearly document any external packages used by your code.

  • Submit via Moodle a single archive (zip, tar.gz, …) containing:

    • The code you used to solve the assignment.

    • A link to the output produced by your code. Do not include the output in this submission. Save it somewhere on the cloud and provide a link.

    • A short write up describing how your code ran on the data sets: the parameters used, time taken, space required, and anything else of interest.

  • You can work in groups of two. Each group makes a single submission to Moodle. Use either person's Moodle account to submit. The submission should mention the names of the two partners.

  • There will be a short oral presentation and question/answer session for each group.