MLJourney
Day 23
Week 4

Learn from Kaggle Notebooks

Overview

Kaggle notebooks are a treasure trove of practical knowledge, showcasing how others approach and solve ML problems.

Today, you'll explore public notebooks for popular competitions like Titanic and House Prices to learn different coding styles, feature engineering tricks, and modeling techniques.

Key Concepts
  • Navigating Kaggle notebooks and understanding code structure
  • Feature engineering and preprocessing techniques
  • Model selection and training strategies
  • Visualization and interpretation of results
  • How to adapt notebook ideas for your own projects
  • Understanding kernel discussions and comments
Practice Exercise

Exercise: Study and Run Top Kaggle Notebooks

  1. Go to the Titanic and House Prices competitions on Kaggle.
  2. Browse the top-voted and most forked public notebooks.
  3. Run a few notebooks on Kaggle’s online environment to understand their workflow.
  4. Modify a notebook by adding or changing some steps, like adding a new feature or changing a model parameter.
  5. Document your observations and learning points.
Resources

Titanic and House Prices Public Notebooks

Main resource for today

Kaggle Notebook Documentation

Learn how to use and create Kaggle notebooks

How to Learn from Kaggle Notebooks

Tips on effectively learning from others' code

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