IntermediateConservationPYTHON+20 XP

Rhino patrol effort vs poaching incidents

Scenario

You are a data scientist. A reserve records monthly ranger patrol hours and poaching incidents. Management wants to know whether more patrol hours actually reduce incidents.

Question

Teach a straight-line model using patrol hours, then show the line's direction and how well it fits.

Your task

Put patrol_hours into X using double brackets
Put incidents into y
Teach LinearRegression with fit, then print coef_ and score

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1. Choose your dataset

Pick an industry and a size. Your code and results change to match.

IndustrySize

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Rhino patrol effort vs poaching incidents

Teach a straight-line model using patrol hours, then show the line's direction and how well it fits.

In [1]:

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python editorpatrol_log

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📂 Opens the "patrol_log" table→✅ Shows you the answer

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Dataset & schema

patrol_log

IndustryDataset size

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Fields

month	patrol_hours	incidents
2026-01	420	7
2026-02	610	4
2026-03	380	9
2026-04	720	2

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Uses LinearRegression
2D feature matrix
Fits the model
Reports the slope
Reports R²