README.md

Flight Prediction Test on Airport Data from Tunesian Airline

Based on several machine learning classifier this project tries to predict delays of individual airplanes.

Data from here: https://zindi.africa/competitions/flight-delay-prediction-challenge (last access Aug 9th, 2024)

Set up the Presentation

• Thre presentation can be started with streamlit. Make sure to have streamlit installed in your directory, as described in the requirements.

  streamlit run app.py

  After that a local host is started in your standard browser.

Set up your Environment

macOS type the following commands :

• For installing the virtual environment you can either use the Makefile and run make setup or install it manually with the following commands:

  make setup

  After that active your environment by following commands:

  source .venv/bin/activate

Or ....

• Install the virtual environment and the required packages by following commands:

  pyenv local 3.11.3
  python -m venv .venv
  source .venv/bin/activate
  pip install --upgrade pip
  pip install -r requirements.txt

WindowsOS type the following commands :

• Install the virtual environment and the required packages by following commands.

  For PowerShell CLI :

  pyenv local 3.11.3
  python -m venv .venv
  .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
  pip install --upgrade pip
  pip install -r requirements.txt

  For Git-bash CLI :

  pyenv local 3.11.3
  python -m venv .venv
  source .venv/Scripts/activate
  pip install --upgrade pip
  pip install -r requirements.txt

  Note: If you encounter an error when trying to run pip install --upgrade pip, try using the following command:

  python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

Usage

In order to train the model and store test data in the data folder and the model in models run:

Note: Make sure your environment is activated.

python example_files/train.py  

In order to test that predict works on a test set you created run:

python example_files/predict.py models/linear_regression_model.sav data/X_test.csv data/y_test.csv

Limitations

Development libraries are part of the production environment, normally these would be separate as the production code should be as slim as possible.