The food inspection department conducts regular inspection on food quality for various restaurants in the city. It’s a very well documented procedure and over time some good amount of data has been generated out of these inspections.

The inspection department would like to predict where they should focus most in terms of their next inspection schedule, so that they can most optimize their time at hand to catch the worst offenders. Can the past inspection or any data that they have collected predict which facility will pass or fail.

In this hackathon, MachineHack provides you with a subset of this dataset with information on food quality checks conducted on thousands of facilities that serve food across multiple cities. Your objective as a Data Scientist is to predict whether a facility will pass or fail the inspection based on a number of factors.

Build a predictive model that is capable of predicting the outcome of an inspection conducted in a facility based on the given set of features

ID: A unique id for each inspection
Date: The date at which the inspection was done in a particular facility
LicenseNo: De-identified license number for a particular facility
FacilityID: De-identified unique facility id  for a facility
FacilityName: The encoded name of a facility
Type: The type of the facility being inspected
Street: The encoded street where the facility is located
City: The encoded city where the facility is located
State: The encoded state where the facility is located
LocationID: An encoded location feature.
Reason: The primary reason for the inspection
SectionViolations: Laws violated by the facility
RiskLevel: The level of risk the facility possesses to the consumers.
Geo_Loc: De-identified geo location of the facility
Inspection_Results: The result of the inspection

The inspection results can have any of the following values -

0:’FACILITY CHANGED’
1:’FAIL’
2:’FURTHER INSPECTION REQUIRED’,
3:’INSPECTION OVERRULED’
4:’PASS’
5:’PASS(CONDITIONAL)’
6:’SHUT-DOWN’

Data_Train.xlsx – 147443 rows × 15 columns
Data_Test.xlsx – 49148 rows × 14 columns
Sample_Submission.xlsx – 49148 rows × 7 columns

The leaderboard is evaluated using Multi Class Log loss (Cross-entropy loss) for the participant’s submission.