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Skills application

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Skills application

In this activity, you will apply dimensionality reduction techniques to build a model that helps a bank predict whether a customer is likely to default on a credit card payment.

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Success criteria

To successfully complete this skills application, write a report of up to 1,800 words that summarises:

  • What the key drivers are behind someone defaulting on a credit card payment
  • The process you used to find these insights
  • A recommendation on how the bank should proceed
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Instructions

Launch the Skillable lab and work through how to simplify a dataset using Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

This exercise helps you simplify complex datasets so you can build more efficient and interpretable models.