Spain Electricity Shortfall Challenge

The task was to predict the shortfall between the energy generated by means of fossil fuels and various renewable sources - for the country of Spain. The daily shortfall, which was the target variable, was modelled as a function of various city-specific weather features such as temperature, wind...

Climate Change Belief Classification

The project’s aim was to construct a machine learning model that can predict, based on a person's most recent tweets, whether or not they believe in climate change. Tweets had to be classified into four class sentiments based on a user’s belief.

Language Classification

South Africa is a multicultural society that is characterized by its rich linguistic diversity. Language is an indispensable tool that can be used to deepen democracy and also contribute to the social, cultural, intellectual, economic and political life of the South African society. The...

Movie Recommendation System

The aim of this project was to construct a recommendation algorithm based on content or collaborative filtering, capable of accurately predicting how a user will rate a movie they have not yet viewed, based on their historical preferences.