Chapter 15 Examples in Kaggle
Kaggle is a platform for data scientists and machine learning practitioners which allows users to:
- find datasets
- publish datasets
- exlplore models on web-based data-science environment in
- Python
- R
- SQLite
- Julia
- work with other machine learning practitioners on competitions
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- Host competitions
- engage in discussions
- find jobs
- List of Kaggle winning solutions
Same facts about Kaggle
- Founded April 2010
- Headquarter in San Francisco
- More than 1 million member since March 2017
Kinds of competitions
- Featured
- generally commercially-purposed prediction problems
- with up to $1.5 mio price money
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- good opportunity to learn from the best
- Research
- more experimental than featured competition problems
- with up to $50,000 price money
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- Recruitment
- corporation-curated challenges
- teams of size one
- with up to $20,000 price money
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- interested participants can upload their resume for consideration by the host
- price: job interview
- Getting started
- easiest, most approachable competitions
- getting the foot in the door
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- Playground
- one step above Getting Started in difficulty
- with up to $30,000 price money
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- Masters
- limited participation
- only by invitation
- with up to $125,000 price money
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- 0 active
More details on how competitions are conducted can be found at https://www.kaggle.com/docs/competitions