How do you make the most out of Kaggle?
The Tips and Tricks I used to succeed on Kaggle
- Be persistent.
- Spend time on data preparation and feature engineering.
- Don’t ignore domain specific knowledge.
- Pick your competitions wisely.
- Find a good team.
- Other philosophies.
- In summary: persistence and learning.
How do you make money with Kaggle?
I put contests in 4 buckets:
- I want to get in the Top 10, and hit money if possible.
- I want to learn a new tool, and the contest is a good excuse to do so.
- Might as well get a few extra kaggle points by jumping in.
- Don’t have the time or interest.
What is Kaggle and why is it so popular?
This means that you can interact and learn.. no more passive reading through hours of learning material! All of these together have made Kaggle much more than simply a website that hosts competitions. It has, now, also become a complete project-based learning environment for data science.
Is Kaggle a good place to learn data science?
The challenges on Kaggle are hosted by real companies looking to solve a real problem that they encounter. The datasets that they provide are real. All that prize money is real. This means that you get to learn Data Science/ ML and practice your skills by solving (at least what feels like) real-world problems.
What is the machine learning course on Kaggle learn?
The Machine Learning course on Kaggle Learn won’t teach you the theory and the mathematics behind ML algorithms. Instead, it focuses on teaching only those things that are absolutely necessary in analysing and modelling a dataset.
What is Kaggle for ML competitions?
You might have heard of Kaggle as a website that awards mind-boggling cash prizes for ML competitions. Competitions hosted on Kaggle with the maximum prize money (yes those are MILLION DOLLAR+ prizes!)