Kaggle Paris Meetup

Key points

Short Description

5 episods for this season

BOF Devoxx 2016

Meetup description

• For datasciences challenges participants 

• Kaggle , Datasciences.net, Data Driven etc..

• Timing :

  • Talks 20'

  • Hands-on (irregular)

Examples of a Datascience Challenge

• Image classification : "Your goal is to build a "face recognition system" for whales." (Right Whale competition)
• Product Categorization (for CDiscount marketplace, Otto group)
• Claim management (BNP Cardif) : Classification
   
• What is a datascience challenge / competitions ? :
  • Supervised ML
  • Train and test sets
  • Private and Public Leaderboard

Why participate to the Kaggle Paris Meetup ?

• There is an hands-on session, so it's not only listening
• For beginner MLearner :
  • get a starter code
  • get some methodology
  • ...
• For experienced MLearner :
  • Feedback from top kaggler
  • Tricks explanation
  • ...
• Next slides , description of the last year meetups :

Kaggle Meetup #6 : Hacking The Otto Group Challenge ( may 5, 15)

• Product Categorization  (Otto group)
• at La paillasse
• Report here http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/05/20/hacking-the-otto-group-challenge-in-paris/
• Hands on :
  • Hyperopt
  • Neural network (Theano, Lasagne, Keras)

Kaggle Meetup #7: Cdiscount challenge (datascience.net) kickoff + Otto feedback (june 6, 15)

• Product Categorization  (CDiscount & Otto group)
• at Octo
• CDiscount challenge here  https://www.datascience.net/fr/challenge/20/details
• Hands on :
  • Vowpal Wabbit,
  • Outliers

Kaggle Meetup #8: Cdiscount feedback + Right Whale Recognition (october 1, 15)

• Image classification :  Categorization  "Your goal is to build a "face recognition system" for whales."
• at Mobiskill
• Talks by the winner and top 3 participants of the CDiscount challenge
• Starter code with Matlab (sponsor of Right Whale Recog.)
• Reports here http://files.meetup.com/13216192/CR%20Meetup%208.pdf

Kaggle Meetup #9: Rossmann and Homesite Hands-on Session (december 11, 15)

• Talk David Faria
• Rossmann : Sales prediction
• Homesite (insurance) : Quote conversion
• AirBnb challenge: travel prediction  
• at Equancy
• Hands-on : xg-boost, feature engineering
• Reports here http://files.meetup.com/13216192/CR%20Meetup%209.pdf

Kaggle Meetup #10 Spring meetup 

(april 14, 16)

• Talks: Yann Carbone about Home Depot challenge (regression like) 
  • Theme : Word2vec
• Ardalan Mehrani (iosquare) about Bnp Cardif (classification)
  • Theme : Stacking 
• notebook and slides here
  •  https://github.com/ArdalanM/meetup-kaggle-brostacking
• at Dataiku

Stats  

• Around 570 members
• About 50 people at each session (limited seats) 
• Thanks for the hosters : La Paillasse, Octo, Mobiskill, Equancy, Dataiku