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 competitions.
General advice posts
- 10 Steps to Success in Kaggle Data Science Competitions (guest post on KDNuggets)
- How to (almost) win Kaggle competitions
- Kaggle beginner tips
Solution posts
- Greek Media Monitoring Multilabel Classification [6th/120] – multi-label classification of pre-tokenised texts
- Personalised Web Search Challenge [9th/194] – reranking web search results in a personalised manner
- Blue Book for Bulldozers [9th/476] – forecasting auction sale price of bulldozers
- ICFHR 2012 – Arabic Writer Identification Competition [3rd/42] – classifying handwritten texts by the identity of the writer (Kaggle blog post)
- EMC Data Science Global Hackathon (Air Quality Prediction) [6th/110] – forecasting levels of air pollutants (Kaggle forum post)
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