For this task, we will take a look at the ZOO database. The database contains 101 data entries of animals described with 18 attributes, as shown in the following table:
|
animal |
aquatic |
fins |
|
hair |
predator |
legs |
|
feathers |
toothed |
tail |
|
eggs |
backbone |
domestic |
|
milk |
breathes |
cat size |
|
airborne |
venomous |
type |
An example entry in the dataset is a lion, with the following attributes:
- animal: lion
- hair: true
- feathers: false
- eggs: false
- milk: true
- airborne: false
- aquatic: false
- predator: true
- toothed: true
- backbone: true
- breathes: true
- venomous: false
- fins: false
- legs: 4
- tail: true
- domestic: false
- catsize: true
- type: mammal
Our task will be to build a model to predict the outcome variable, animal, given all of the other attributes as input.