R Shiny App created to predict the success rate of Freedom of Information Act requests.
This R Shiny App was created to predict the success rate of Freedom of Information Act requests based on a dataset of 9,000+ previous FOIA requests and their outcomes.
This model uses K Nearest Neighbors with k=5. First, it reads in the previous reqests that have already had the important features extracted (see feature extraction python notebook) and builds a model. Then, it takes the user’s text input and performs the same feature extraction in real time. It also translates the user’s agency into a boolean variable based on whether that agency has a success rate > 50%. Then the model outputs a predicted likelihood of success, as well as the features the script extracted from the text input.
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