Building an event predictor

Let's apply all of this knowledge from this chapter to a real-world problem. We will build an SVM to predict the number of people going in and out of a building. The dataset is available at https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/CalIt2+Building+People+Counts. We will use a slightly modified version of this dataset so that it's easier to analyze. The modified data is available in the building_event_binary.txt and the building_event_multiclass.txt files that are already provided to you. In this recipe, we will learn how to build an event predictor.