Will Your Education Pay You Well?
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Harsh Darji
Originally published on Towards AI.
Wage analysis using Random Forest

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Wage analysis is a process of comparing the salaries based on the attributes attached to the employee. Of course, there are several factors like the company, location which contributes to the wage. However, we will analyze the Mid-Atlantic wage dataset, which is available here.
For execution reason, I have utilized PySpark and Apache Spark Docker Jupyter Notebook, and you can utilize python and scikit or some other bundles.
We should peruse our information and perceive what it looks like:
We have a lot of categorical variables like Marital, race, education, job class, health, and health_ins, so we need to convert them into integer… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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