About the Dataset

This dataset includes data on adult's diet, physical activity, and weight status from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. This data is used for DNPAO's Data, Trends, and Maps database, which provides national and state specific data on obesity, nutrition, physical activity, and breastfeeding. There are 29 variables in the train dataset including target variable. Some of the variables are listed below with their description:

YearStart & YearEnd are the starting and ending year for which the obesity percentage is to be estimated
Sample_Size is the sample of population
LocationDesc is the location description and LocationAbbr is the location abbreviation
Topic and Question are the topic and question category under which sample population falls
Age(years) is the age range to which sample population belong
Data_VAlue is the population obesity percentage (the target variable)

Note: You can read the downloaded dataset from the 'Data' section using pandas read_csv() function.

Saving Prediction File & Sample Submission

You can find more details on how to save a prediction file here: https://discuss.dphi.tech/t/how-to-submit-predictions/548

Sample submission: You should submit a CSV file with a header row and the sample submission can be found below:

prediction

70.7

34.5

23.9

76.5

45.7

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Etc.

Note that the header name should be ‘prediction’ else it will throw an evaluation error.

Acknowledgement

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Data Sprint #30: Obesity Trends

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