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Sumit Mund is a BI/analytics consultant with about a decade of industry experience. He works in his own company, Mund Consulting Ltd., where he is a director and lead consultant. He is an expert in machine learning, predictive analytics, C#, R, and Python programming; he also has an active interest in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience working with most of Microsoft Data Analytics tools and also on Big Data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE in Business Intelligence). Sumit regularly engages on social media platforms through his tweets, blogs, and LinkedIn profile, and often gives talks at industry conferences and local user group meetings.
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The dataset


You can download the dataset and find the description at https://www.kaggle.com/c/afsis-soil-properties/data.

The dataset has been explained in the following term list, as found at the preceding web link:

  • PIDN: This is the unique soil sample identifier.

  • SOC: This refers to soil organic carbon.

  • pH: These are the pH values.

  • Ca: This is the Mehlich-3 extractable calcium.

  • P: This is the Mehlich-3 extractable phosphorus.

  • Sand: This is the sand content.

  • m7497.96 - m599.76: There are 3,578 mid-infrared absorbance measurements. For example, the "m7497.96" column is the absorbance at wavenumber 7497.96 cm-1. We suggest you remove spectra CO2 bands, which are in the region m2379.76 to m2352.76, but you do not have to.

  • Depth: This is the depth of the soil sample (this has two categories: "Topsoil" and "Subsoil"). They have also included some potential spatial predictors from remote sensing data sources. Short variable descriptions of different terms are provided below and additional descriptions...

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Sumit Mund is a BI/analytics consultant with about a decade of industry experience. He works in his own company, Mund Consulting Ltd., where he is a director and lead consultant. He is an expert in machine learning, predictive analytics, C#, R, and Python programming; he also has an active interest in Artificial Intelligence. He has extensive experience working with most of Microsoft Data Analytics tools and also on Big Data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE in Business Intelligence). Sumit regularly engages on social media platforms through his tweets, blogs, and LinkedIn profile, and often gives talks at industry conferences and local user group meetings.
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