Introduction to Competitive Machine Learning


Summary:

This meetup introduced the fundamentals of machine learning competitions.

During this meetup, we will discuss:

  • What is Competitive Machine Learning?
  • Why Compete?
  • Where Can I Compete?
  • How Do I Start?
    • Kaggle Walkthrough
    • Titanic Competition

Presenter: Matt Motoki & Thomas Yokota

  • Matt is a data science consultant who enjoys competing on Kaggle in his free time.
  • Thomas is an epidemiologist in Hawaii. His interests include machine learning, forecasting and whatever works on Kaggle.

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