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The Kaggle Book

By : Konrad Banachewicz, Luca Massaron
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Book Image

The Kaggle Book

5 (2)
By: Konrad Banachewicz, Luca Massaron

Overview of this book

Millions of data enthusiasts from around the world compete on Kaggle, the most famous data science competition platform of them all. Participating in Kaggle competitions is a surefire way to improve your data analysis skills, network with an amazing community of data scientists, and gain valuable experience to help grow your career. The first book of its kind, The Kaggle Book assembles in one place the techniques and skills you’ll need for success in competitions, data science projects, and beyond. Two Kaggle Grandmasters walk you through modeling strategies you won’t easily find elsewhere, and the knowledge they’ve accumulated along the way. As well as Kaggle-specific tips, you’ll learn more general techniques for approaching tasks based on image, tabular, textual data, and reinforcement learning. You’ll design better validation schemes and work more comfortably with different evaluation metrics. Whether you want to climb the ranks of Kaggle, build some more data science skills, or improve the accuracy of your existing models, this book is for you. Plus, join our Discord Community to learn along with more than 1,000 members and meet like-minded people!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface
1
Part I: Introduction to Competitions
6
Part II: Sharpening Your Skills for Competitions
15
Part III: Leveraging Competitions for Your Career
18
Other Books You May Enjoy
19
Index

Sentiment analysis

Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms and an important communication tool for many, individuals and companies alike.

Capturing sentiment in language is particularly important in the latter context: a positive tweet can go viral and spread the word, while a particularly negative one can be harmful. Since human language is complicated, it is important not to just decide on the sentiment, but also to be able to investigate the how: which words actually led to the sentiment description?

We will demonstrate an approach to this problem by using data from the Tweet Sentiment Extraction competition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/tweet-sentiment-extraction). For brevity, we have omitted the imports from the following code, but you can find them in the corresponding Notebook in the GitHub repo for this chapter.

To get a better feel for the problem, let’s start by looking at the data:

df = pd.read_csv('/kaggle/input/tweet-sentiment...