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Predicting diabetes in women using diagnostic features

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Predicting the onset of Diabetes

Using a Neural Network to predict diabetes in women using diagnostic features . I used Keras for the building the Neural Network. Added Dropout layers to avoid overfitting. The kaggle dataset that i used is - https://www.kaggle.com/uciml/pima-indians-diabetes-database

The neural network that I have built is 5 layered . The performance on the test set was around 80.1% initially when i did not use dropout layers . After adding the dropout layers, accuracy increased to around 86% . Probably because it was overfitting and not perfoming that well on the test set when dropout was not used.

Will update this with a Sci-Kit version soon !