Ryan Swanstrom

Tag: kaggle

  • Increase Your Kaggle Score With a Random Forest

    Previously, I blogged about submitting your first solution to Kaggle for the Biological Response Competition. Well, that technique used Logistic Regression and the resulting score was not very good. Now, let’s try to improve upon that score. In this example, we will use what is called a Random Forest. Kaggle claims that random forests have…

  • Your First Kaggle Submission

    Yesterday, I wrote a post explaining the Kaggle Biological Response competition. If you don’t know, Kaggle is a website for data science competitions. Now it is time to submit a solution. After this post, you should have a spot on the Leaderboard. Granted, it will not be first place but it won’t be last place…

  • Get Started With Kaggle – Description

    Yesterday, I posted about the popularity of data hackathons. Well, today let’s get started with Kaggle. This is the first of a few simple posts about making your first submission to a Kaggle competition. I also promise you won’t be last place. You won’t be first either. This is an excellent way to start developing…

  • Hackathons with Data are Everywhere

    It seems that competitions and meetups for hacking data are all over the place. Coding challenges have been around for a long time. Recently, it appears that data is being thrown into the mix. I think the idea is great. Instead of just hacking some app, why not hack with some data that might help…

  • Data Scientists Get Ranked – NYTimes.com

    I’ve never had a Google account, and I pay to use e-mail […] I know how much information they can collect, and how much people can learn from your clicks. by Sergey Yurgenson, one of Kaggle’s top competitors as listed in this article from the NewYorkTimes.com, Data Scientists Get Ranked. The article does also list…

  • Kaggle Makes Data Science Fun

    The tag line for Kaggle is “We’re making data science a sport.”  They have successfully created a way to turn data science into a competition.  It is both fun, and it yields excellent results.  There is also a portion of the site dedicated for classroom use.  It is called Kaggle in Class. Here is how…

  • What Makes a Good Data Scientist?

    Jeremy Howard is the Chief Scientist at Kaggle. At the end of this interview, from the Strata Conference 2012, he identified 4 simple traits that a data scientist needs. Creativity Open-mindedness Tenacity A Good Skillset Jeremy Howard of Kaggle at Strata 2012 In this brief interview he covers a range of other data science topics:…