Classification of Endangered Species

Predicting the Federal Listing Status of U.S. plant and animal species.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Data for this project was collected from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

https://ecos.fws.gov

U.S. Forest Service

Table B-11: Forest Land Area

https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/fs_media/fs_document/publication-15817-usda-forest-service-fia-annual-report-508.pdf

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Air Quality Index

https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Annual

Exploratory Data Analysis

Species Group

• Dropped features that represented less than 1% of the population

State Distribution

• Dropped features that represented less than 1% of the population

VIP Distribution

Classification Models

• Dummy Classifier
• Logistic Regression
• K Nearest Neighbors
• Decision Tree
• Random Forest

Baseline Model

Best Training Model by F1 Score

• K Nearest Neighbors

Balanced Class Model with SMOTE Oversampling

Best Training Model by F1 Score

• Decision Tree

Tuned Hyper-Parameter and Balanced Class Model

Best Training Model by F1 Score

• Logistic Regression

Most important features:

States

• Idaho
• Hawaii
• Wyoming

Species Groups

• Insects
• Crustaceans