Overview
Kaggle competitions are the perfect platform to practice and showcase your machine learning skills on real-world datasets.
Today, you’ll learn how Kaggle competitions work, understand the different competition types, and get started with your first submission.
Key Concepts
- Understanding Kaggle competition types: Featured, Research, Playground
- How to join competitions and read competition rules
- Data download and submission format
- Leaderboard and evaluation metrics
- Using Kaggle kernels (notebooks) to build and submit models
- Best practices for first submissions
Practice Exercise
Exercise: Get Started with a Kaggle Competition
- Create a Kaggle account if you don’t have one.
- Pick a beginner-friendly competition like the Titanic or House Prices.
- Download the competition data and understand the problem.
- Explore public Kaggle notebooks related to the competition.
- Make a simple model and submit your first prediction.
- Check your ranking and analyze feedback from the leaderboard.
Resources
Kaggle Competitions Course
Main resource for today
How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers
Tips and techniques from expert Kaggle competitors
Kaggle Competitions Overview
Official guide to competitions on Kaggle
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