Competition
What makes a good book?
As reading trends keep changing, an ambitious online bookstore has seen a boost in popularity following an intense marketing campaign. Excited to keep the momentum going, the bookstore has kicked off a challenge among their data scientists. They've equipped the team with a comprehensive dataset featuring book prices, reviews, author details, and categories. The team is all set to tackle this challenge, aiming to build a model that accurately predicts book popularity, which will help the bookstore manage their stock better and tweak their marketing plans to suit what their readers love the most. Help them get the best predictions!
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- You can use any predictive model to solve the problem of categorizing books as popular or unpopular.
- Use the accuracy score as your metric to optimize, aiming for at least a 70% accuracy on a test set.
- You may also wish to use feature engineering to pre-process the data.
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Judging criteria
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Rules
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- Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
- The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
- Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline.
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
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