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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

Saving Notebooks to GitHub

A recently introduced feature (see https://www.kaggle.com/product-feedback/295170) allows you to store your code or your Notebook to the version control repository GitHub (https://github.com/). You can store your work both to public and private repositories, and this will happen automatically as you save a version of your code. Such a feature could prove quite useful for sharing your work with your Kaggle teammates, as well as for showcasing your work to the wider public.

In order to enable this feature, you need to open your Notebook; in the File menu, choose the Link to GitHub option.

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Figure 3.10: Enabling the GitHub feature

After choosing the option, you will have to link your GitHub account to the Notebook. You will explicitly be asked for linking permissions the first time you choose to link. For any subsequent links to new Notebooks, the operation will be carried out automatically.

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Figure 3.11: Linking to GitHub

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