This final project, which I completed alongside my classmate and good friend Pramit, consisted of two parts:
- Predicting flight delays to and from Pittsburgh using past flight data
- Writing up results in a report
Besides the flight data we were given, I gathered and tried to utilize other data, namely list of major American Federal holidays, historical weather rain and wind data, but none of these methods improved predictive accuracy by much. I expect that the weather data could have been more useful if I had historical forecasts, not just observed weather, but I could not find any.
Regardless, we still ended up having one of the highest accuracy models in the course, receiving bonus points as a result.