Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this “Baena Tirante” thing for a bit, trying to get it to predict stuff. Here’s how it went down.
First, I had to, you know, actually find some data. That was a pain. I ended up grabbing a dataset I found. Lots of digging around random websites and forums.
Then came the real fun – cleaning the data. Ugh. It was a mess! Missing values, weird formatting, the whole nine yards. I spent a good chunk of time just wrestling with this, using some basic Python scripts and, like, a lot of manual checking. It felt like forever.
Trying Stuff Out
I decided to try using Python . So I installed it(version 3.9).
- pip install python==3.9
I installed pandas for data manipulation.
- pip install pandas
After installing all, I started to wrangle with the data.
Next up, I had to actually, like, build the prediction model. I’m no expert, so I started simple. I used this library, scikit-learn, in Python. It’s pretty popular for this kind of thing, or so I read. I went with a basic model to start, figured I’d see if it even worked before getting fancy.
I split the data into training and testing sets – you know, the usual deal. Fed the training data to the model, let it “learn” (whatever that means), and then tested it on the, well, test data. I got… results. Not great, not terrible. Definitely room for improvement, but hey, it was doing something.
Tweaking and More Tweaking
- I messed around with the features. I changed which columns to include.
- And used more data records for traning model.
I spent a bunch of time just tweaking things. Trying different model parameters, messing with the features, you name it. It was a lot of trial and error. Some stuff worked a little better, some stuff made it worse. It felt like I was just randomly poking at things, but slowly, the results started getting a bit better.
Finally, I got to a point where I was like, “Okay, this is… decent.” It wasn’t going to win any awards, but it was making predictions that were, at least, somewhat reasonable. Good enough for a first try, I guess!
It’s definitely a work in progress. I need to do a lot more digging and learn more about this stuff. But, it was a fun little project, and I actually managed to get something working!
