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Kaggle beginner tips
These are few points from an email I sent to members of the Data Science Sydney Meetup. I suppose other Kaggle beginners may find it useful. My first steps when working on a new competition are: Read...
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Kaggle competition tips and summaries
Over the years, I’ve participated in a few Kaggle competitions and wrote a bit about my experiences. This page contains pointers to all my posts, and will be updated if/when I participate in more...
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How to (almost) win Kaggle competitions
Last week, I gave a talk at the Data Science Sydney Meetup group about some of the lessons I learned through almost winning five Kaggle competitions. The core of the talk was ten tips, which I think...
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Greek Media Monitoring Kaggle competition: My approach
A few months ago I participated in the Kaggle Greek Media Monitoring competition. The goal of the competition was doing multilabel classification of texts scanned from Greek print media. Despite not...
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Fitting noise: Forecasting the sale price of bulldozers (Kaggle competition...
Messy data, buggy software, but all in all a good learning experience… Early last year, I had some free time on my hands, so I decided to participate in yet another Kaggle competition. Having never...
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Is thinking like a search engine possible? (Yandex search personalisation –...
About a year ago, I participated in the Yandex search personalisation Kaggle competition. I started off as a solo competitor, and then added a few Kaggle newbies to the team as part of a program I was...
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Learning to rank for personalised search (Yandex Search Personalisation –...
This is the second and last post summarising my team’s solution for the Yandex search personalisation Kaggle competition. See the first post for a summary of the dataset, evaluation approach, and some...
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