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Another thirty days of machine learning with Kaggle (Part 3)

It took me a while to finally complete all 17 modules, but knowing that there was a clear outcome helped motivate me to keep taking the next step, and the step after that.

So, if you’re interested in getting a taste of what the world of machine learning has to offer, beginning with the (free!) online courses on Kaggle Learn is a great starting point. I know that it definitely was for me.

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Another thirty days of machine learning with Kaggle (Part 1)

Last August, I completed Kaggle’s “30 Days of Machine Learning” challenge. In the spirit of continuous learning, I decided to take the plunge and finish all the remaining 14 modules in Kaggle Learn. It took me another 30 days, over a span of several months, to finally read through all the tutorials and complete all the coding exercises. Here is Part 1 of my learning journey.

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Using a shotgun approach for the Titanic competition

After completing Alexis Cook’s very useful Titanic Tutorial, I couldn’t help myself and spent a couple of days hacking around to try and improve my score without going through the usual data science workflow of EDA, feature engineering, model selection, hyperparameter tuning, train/test iterations.

I know it’s not the proper way of doing data science, but like I said, I just couldn’t help myself.

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