Predicting Oscar Winners Using Machine Learning Techniques

Predicting the Oscar winners has always been the favorite game of journalists and gamblers of all kinds, as the annual Academy Awards approaches. However, it can be very complex for several reasons. Through this project, I wanted to try my hand at this game by applying well-known data science techniques.

Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup

Beautiful Soup is an excellent library for parsing a web page and building a structured representation. It allows you to access any element of the DOM by type, ID, class or any tag properties.

I use it a lot on my Data Science projects, as it allows me to create datasets from any websites. It is a tool that every good data scientist needs to know.