How Badly Will People Be Hurt in This Crash?
From seat-belt use, ejection, seating position and other crash details, how severe were the injuries? Knowing what makes the difference helps safety agencies decide where to campaign.
The table
Person records from the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System, with restraint use, ejection, position, crash details and test fields, and the injury severity. It's in Welt's research catalogue as FARS Motor Vehicle Crash Person Records (PMLB), 100,968 rows by 30 columns, licensed MIT (PMLB collection). The catalogue measures its signal at 0.43. At 100,968 rows and 29 features the table is larger than the model limits allow, so the walkthrough evaluates and fits on a seeded sample of 4,000 rows. TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium compete.
Walkthrough
Load it from the catalogue
Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.
import pandas as pd from welt import Client with Client() as client: item = client.research_datasets(q="FARS motor vehicle crash person", limit=1)["items"][0] info = client.research_dataset(item["id"]) data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"]) target = info["targets"][0] target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)Pick the rows
Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end. The models learn from a seeded sample of 4,000 of the rest, the most this table's width allows.
known = data.dropna(subset=[target]) new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1) table = known.drop(new_rows.index).sample(4000, random_state=7)Compare the models and predict
The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.
with Client() as client: evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7, models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"]) model = evaluation.fit() print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]]) features = new_rows.drop(columns=target) print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features), "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))
What you get
Try it
Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "FARS motor vehicle crash person", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".
Open with
- Type
- Use case
- Area
- Engineering
- Question
- How Badly Will People Be Hurt in This Crash?
- Model
- TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium
- Data
- FARS Motor Vehicle Crash Person Records (PMLB), 100,968 rows
- For
- Road-safety researchers and transport agencies
- Licence
- MIT (PMLB collection)