Counterfeit bank note detection

Counterfeit money is a currency created without the state or government's legal sanction, usually in a deliberate attempt to imitate the currency and to deceive its user. In this recipe, you will train a machine learning classifier to distinguish between genuine and fake bank notes.

Getting ready

Preparation for this recipe involves installing scikit-learn and pandas in pip. The command is as follows:

pip install sklearn pandas

In preparation for this recipe, download the banknote authentication dataset from UCI's machine learning repository: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/banknote+authentication.

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