Yousefb92/WaterPumpsinTanzania

Exploring statistical learning models to predict whether or not water pumps distributed around Tanzania are in need of maintenance. # Water Pumps in Tanzania ## Data Source The data for this comeptition comes from the Taarifa waterpoints dashboard, which aggregates data from the Tanzania Ministry of Water. In their own words: Taarifa is an open source platform for the crowd sourced reporting and triaging of infrastructure related issues. Think of it as a bug tracker for the real world which helps to engage citizens with their local government. We are currently working on an Innovation Project in Tanzania, with various partners. ## Objective The goal was to predict the operating condition of a waterpoint for each record in the dataset. We are provided the following set of features about the waterpoints: