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
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