End-to-End ML Project
The Complete ML Workflow
This module brings everything together in a real project:- Problem Definition: What are we solving?
- Data Collection: Get the data
- EDA: Understand the data
- Feature Engineering: Prepare features
- Model Selection: Choose algorithms
- Training: Fit models
- Evaluation: Measure performance
- Tuning: Optimize hyperparameters
- Deployment: Make it usable
Project: Predicting Customer Churn
Business Problem: A telecom company wants to predict which customers will leave (churn) so they can offer them incentives to stay.Step 1: Load and Explore Data
Step 2: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Step 3: Feature Engineering
Step 4: Preprocessing Pipeline
Step 5: Model Selection and Comparison
Step 6: Hyperparameter Tuning
Step 7: Final Evaluation
Step 8: Feature Importance Analysis
Step 9: Business Insights
Step 10: Save the Model
Production Considerations
Model Monitoring
- Track prediction drift over time
- Monitor for data quality issues
- Set up alerts for performance degradation
A/B Testing
- Test model in production with a subset
- Compare with baseline
- Gradually roll out
Retraining Schedule
- Retrain periodically (weekly/monthly)
- Automate the pipeline
- Version your models
Documentation
- Document feature definitions
- Record model decisions
- Maintain changelog
🚀 Mini Projects
Project 1: Loan Default Predictor
Build a complete loan approval system
Project 2: Employee Attrition Analyzer
Predict which employees might leave
Project 3: Product Recommendation Engine
Build a simple recommendation system
Project 4: ML Pipeline with Logging
Create a production-ready ML pipeline
Project 1: Loan Default Predictor
Build a complete loan default prediction system with EDA, feature engineering, and model selection.Project 2: Employee Attrition Analyzer
Predict which employees might leave and understand why.Project 3: Product Recommendation Engine
Build a simple collaborative filtering recommendation system.Project 4: ML Pipeline with Logging
Create a production-ready ML pipeline with proper logging and experiment tracking.Key Takeaways
Start with Business
Understand the problem before touching data
EDA is Critical
Visualize and understand your data first
Iterate Quickly
Start simple, then improve
Evaluate Properly
Use appropriate metrics for your problem
What’s Next?
Great job completing the end-to-end project! Now let’s explore unsupervised learning with clustering.Continue to Module 11: Clustering
Learn to find patterns when you don’t have labels - K-Means, DBSCAN, and more