Final tips

Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Yauhen Babakhin

Kaggle Grandmaster

Save information

 

  1. Save folds to the disk
  2. Save model runs
  3. Save model predictions to the disk
  4. Save performance results
Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Kaggle forum and kernels

Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Kaggle forum and kernels

 

Kaggle forum

  • Competition discussion by the participants
Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Kaggle forum and kernels

 

Kaggle forum

  • Competition discussion by the participants

Kaggle kernels

  • Scripts and notebooks shared by the participants
  • Cloud computational environment
Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Forum and kernels usage

 

When? Forum Kernels
Before the competition Read winners' solutions from the past similar competitions Go through baseline approaches from the past similar competitions
During the competition Follow the discussion to find the ideas and approaches for the problem Look at EDA, baseline models and validation strategies used by others
After the competition Read winners' solutions Look at the final solutions code sharing
Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Select final submissions

 

final submissions selection

Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Select final submissions

 

final submissions selection

Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Select final submissions

 

final submissions selection

Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Final submissions

 

  1. Best submission on the local validation
  2. Best submission on the Public Leaderboard
Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

Let's practice!

Winning a Kaggle Competition in Python

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