okcupid-gender-prediction

This repository contains Isaac Backus' Machine Learning final project for CSE 546: Machine Learning at University of Washington.

The goal of this project was to predict a person's gender from their OkCupid profile responses. The dataset used is a publicly available, small set of OkCupid profiles. The data is reproduced here for convenience.

A PDF of the complete write-up of methods and results can be found here: Results

Using these scripts

Please feel free to use these scripts/tools in part or in their entirety. To get started, unzip profiles.csv.zip in the data folder. Analysis scripts are contained in the analysis folder.

Contents

• analysis/ - Folder containing analysis scripts and results
• data/ - Folder (soft link) containing zipped version of the OkCupid profiles
• literature/ - A couple relevant articles
• poster/ - Poster presenting the methods and results
• writeup/ - LaTex and PDF of complete write-up for methods and results

Poster