Fitting noise: Forecasting the sale price of bulldozers (Kaggle competition summary)
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 done any price forecasting work before, I thought it would be interesting to work on the Blue Book for Bulldozers competition, where the goal was to predict the sale price of auctioned bulldozers. I’ve done alright, finishing 9th out of 476 teams....