boladjivinny/fire-prediction

Notebook for the Fire fighting using data on Zindi. Ranked number 5 on the public leaderboard and 8 on the private leaderboard. zindi.africa # CMU-Africa: Fighting Fire with Data ### Competition held on _Oct. 31, 2020_ ## Brief summary The task consisted in predicting the percentage of area burnt for over specific periods of month using the dataset provided. To solve the regression problem, I essentially did some feature engineering, combining some features together and applying functions to others to draw more insights (exp, log, x^2, etc.). By proceeding like that, I was able to get a RMSE of 0.23 on the public leaderboard with the RidgeCV algorithm. A series of boosting algorithms have then been tried and then stacked with the linear regression model to achieve the final position on the leaderboard. A few more feature engineering would certainly have yielded positive results along with hyperparameter tuning that I could not finish on time due to time constraints.