SpaceX Falcon-9 Success Landing Prediction

Predict if SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage will land successfully after rocket launch.

In this capstone, we will predict if the Falcon 9 first stage will land successfully. SpaceX advertises Falcon 9 rocket launches on its website, with a cost of 62 million dollars; other providers cost upward of 165 million dollars each, much of the savings is because SpaceX can reuse the first stage. Therefore if we can determine if the first stage will land, we can determine the cost of a launch. This information can be used if an alternate company wants to bid against SpaceX for a rocket launch.

Data collection with Webscraping and Data wrangling

Objectives

Write Python code to manipulate data in a Pandas data frame.

Convert a JSON file into a Create a Python Pandas data frame by converting a JSON file

Create a Jupyter notebook and make it sharable using GitHub

Use data science methodologies to define and formulate a real-world business problem.

Use your data analysis tools to load a dataset, clean it, and find out interesting insights from it.

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

Make use a RESTful API and web scraping. Convert the data into a dataframe and then perform some data wrangling.

Objectives

Create scatter plots and bar charts by writing Python code to analyze data in a Pandas data frame

Write Python code to conduct exploratory data analysis by manipulating data in a Pandas data frame

Write and execute SQL queries to select and sort data

Use your data visualization skills to visualize the data and extract meaningful patterns to guide the modeling process.

Interactive Visual Analytics and Dashboards

Build a dashboard to analyze launch records interactively with Plotly Dash as well as build an interactive map to analyze the launch site proximity with Folium python Library.

Objectives

Build an interactive dashboard that contains pie charts and scatter plots to analyze data with the Plotly Dash Python library

Calculate distances on an interactive map by writing Python code using the Folium library

Generate interactive maps, plot coordinates, and mark clusters by writing Python code using the Folium library

Build a dashboard to analyze launch records interactively with Plotly Dash.

Build an interactive map to analyze the launch site proximity with Folium.

Predictive Analysis(Classification)

In this module, we'll use machine learning to determine if the first stage of Falcon 9 will land successfully. Data will be split into training data and test data to find the best Hyperparameter for SVM, Classification Trees, and Logistic Regression. Then find the method that performs best using test data.

Objectives

Split the data into training testing data.

Train different classification models.

Hyperparameter grid search.

Use your machine learning skills to build a predictive model to help a business function more efficiently.