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The RMS Titanic's maiden voyage, which began on April 10, 1912, ended in disaster. The "unsinkable" ship struck an iceberg and sank five days later, taking more than 1,500 lives. This maritime disaster led to significant improvements in safety regulations for passenger ships.
In this report I would be reviewing the Titanic passengers dataset and writing a technical report on my observations.
The dataset obtained from Kaggle Titanic Dataset has been split into 2 files, the test and train data. The train data has 892 records, while the test data has 419 records. The dataset would be used to build a machine learning model that predicts if a passenger would have survived the sinking ship or not.
The key feature/dependent variable of the dataset contains records 0 0r 1. 1 for passengers who survived and 0 for passengers who died during the accident. The dataset contains only mostly numerical values perfect to build the model.
After doing a quick analysis, I observed that passengers in 1st class survived more than passengers in 2nd and 3rd class. This is because passengers in 1st class had better access to lifeboats during the evacuation compared to passengers from the two other classes.
I also checked to see which gender survived more and observed that there were more female survivors than males. This is due to the safety protocol of prioritizing women and children during a crisis.
Lastly, I checked to see the trend in survivor of passengers with parent to children relationships. I observed that passengers with 3 to 0 parent to children relationships survived more than passengers with 4 to 6 parent to children relationships.
From the analysis I observed that most of the survivors were 1st class passengers even though the safety protocol of women and children first was followed, there was bias in the evacuation as women and children in 1st class were prioritized over women and children in 2nd and 3rd class.
In conclusion, there are many theories on why the Titanic could not make it past its maiden voyage. However, the carelessness of the crew cannot be overlooked as well. Proper safety measures were not put in place incase of an accident. It’s sad that those lives were lost during the cruise but the lesson learnt left an impact on maritime safety and has forever changed the history of sea traveling.
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