TabularDates unconfirmedFlu Shot Learning: Predict H1N1 and Seasonal Flu Vaccines
Can you predict whether people got H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines using information they shared about their backgrounds, opinions, and health behaviors?
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- 3–10 hours
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Compute
- CPU only
- Scoring
- Automatic
At a glance
Full rules ↗- Scoring
- “Performance will be evaluated according to the area under the receiver operating character…” The official page's words
Is it for you?
Strong first competition
Beginner fit85/100
Learning value85/100
Who it suits
Beginners looking to practice tabular classification with a clean, well-documented dataset and a standard evaluation metric.
What makes it hard
The dataset has moderate missing values and requires thoughtful feature engineering across demographic and opinion features, plus handling multilabel prediction with two correlated targets.
Getting started
Skills to bring
- Python
- pandas basics
- scikit-learn basics
- understanding of classification metrics
From the organizer
- DataCompetition survey data from the National 2009 H1N1 Flu Survey ↗
- TutorialBenchmark blog post for getting started ↗
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