The Kaggle Book: Data analysis and machine learning for competitive data science

by Konrad Banachewicz, Luca Massaron, Anthony Goldbloom (Foreword by)

Overview

Millions of data enthusiasts from around the world compete on Kaggle, the most famous data science competition platform of them all. Participating in Kaggle competitions is a surefire way to improve your data analysis skills, network with an amazing community of data scientists, and gain valuable experience to help grow your career.

The first book of its kind, The Kaggle Book assembles in one place the techniques and skills you’ll need for success in competitions, data science projects, and beyond. Two Kaggle Grandmasters walk you through modeling strategies you won’t easily find elsewhere, and the knowledge they’ve accumulated along the way. As well as Kaggle-specific tips, you’ll learn more general techniques for approaching tasks based on image, tabular, textual data, and reinforcement learning. You’ll design better validation schemes and work more comfortably with different evaluation metrics.

Whether you want to climb the ranks of Kaggle, build some more data science skills, or improve the accuracy of your existing models, this book is for you.

Plus, join our Discord Community to learn along with more than 1,000 members and meet like-minded people!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801812214
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	04/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	534
Sales rank:	821,568
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Konrad Banachewicz is the author of the bestselling, The Kaggle Book and The Kaggle Workbook. He is a data science manager with experience stretching longer than he likes to ponder on. He holds a PhD in statistics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he focused on problems of extreme dependency modeling in credit risk. He slowly moved from classic statistics towards machine learning and into the business applications world.
Having joined Kaggle over 10 years ago, Luca Massaron is a Kaggle Grandmaster in discussions and a Kaggle Master in competitions and notebooks. In Kaggle competitions he reached no. 7 in the worldwide rankings. On the professional side, Luca is a data scientist with more than a decade of experience in transforming data into smarter artifacts, solving real-world problems, and generating value for businesses and stakeholders. He is a Google Developer Expert(GDE) in machine learning and the author of best-selling books on AI, machine learning, and algorithms.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Kaggle and Other Data Science Competitions
2. Organizing Data with Datasets
3. Working and Learning with Kaggle Notebooks
4. Leveraging Discussion Forums
5. Competition Tasks and Metrics
6. Designing Good Validation
7. Modeling for Tabular Competitions
8. Hyperparameter Optimization
9. Ensembling with Blending and Stacking Solutions
10. Modeling for Computer Vision
11. Modeling for NLP
12. Simulation and Optimization Competitions
13. Creating Your Portfolio of Projects and Ideas
14. Finding New Professional Opportunities