Pies: Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic: a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese

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Predicting Titanic Survivors by Using Machine Learning. About a century ago, one memorable night in April 1912, a world-shattering event happened. The Titanic, the 2,240-passenger luxury cruise ship, sank forever off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic after extensive damage to its hull by an iceberg on its maiden voyage. Only 705 people survived this disaster. Although nearly a century has passed, the research on Titanic has never stopped, and there are still many studies on it. This study was supposed to predict the survival of passengers on Titanic using different methods based on data from the Kaggle competition "Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster." It predicted each pa…

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Henry Sleeper Harper (11 March 1864 – 1 March 1944) was an American businessman. He was an incorporator of Harper & Brothers when the firm became a corporation in 1896. Harper is remembered as a passenger on the RMS Titanic when it sank on April 15, 1912, particularly because his Pekingese Sun Yat-sen was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the Titanic, and also for his work to save the Adirondack forests from logging.

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There were many animals aboard Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. They included dogs, cats, chickens, other birds and an unknown number of rats. Three of the twelve dogs on Titanic survived.

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Logistic Regression: Who Survived the Sinking of the Titanic?

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