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Predicting Movie Rental Durations

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Updated 04/2024
Build a regression model for a DVD rental firm to predict rental duration. Evaluate models to recommend the best one.
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Predicting Movie Rental Durations

Time to put your regression knowledge to the test! A DVD rental company has approached you to make a regression model which will help predict the number of days a customer rents a DVD. The model will hopefully make their inventory planning much more efficient. You decide to help them by running some regression models and recommending the best-performing model to the company.

Predicting Movie Rental Durations

Build a regression model for a DVD rental firm to predict rental duration. Evaluate models to recommend the best one.
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    Predict DVD rental duration to aid in inventory management!

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  • Tom
    4 days ago

    The exercise requires leaving variables that do leak information about the target in the model.

  • Cherif
    5 days ago

Khairul

Emmanuel

"The exercise requires leaving variables that do leak information about the target in the model."

Tom

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Is this project suitable for beginners?

Yes, this project is suitable for beginners. The programming language is Python and the tasks involve assessing and recommending different regression models for predicting DVD rental duration to aid in inventory management.

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This project requires the use of Python for the completion of the tasks.

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