Kaggle is an incredible resource for all data scientists. I advise my Intro to Data Science students at UCLA to take advantage of Kaggle by first completing the venerable Titanic Getting Started Prediction Challenge, and then moving on to active challenges. Kaggle is a great way to gain valuable experience with data science and machine learning. Now, there are two excellent books to lead you through the Kaggle process. The Kaggle Book by Konrad Banachewicz and Luca Massaron published in 2022, and The Kaggle Workbook by the same authors published in 2023, both from UK-based Packt Publishing, are excellent learning resources.
Video Highlights: The Rise of DeBERTa for NLP Downstream Tasks
July 4, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In episode seven of the NVIDIA Grandmaster Series, you’ll learn from four members of the Kaggle Grandmasters of NVIDIA (KGMON) team. Watch this video to learn how they used natural language processing to analyze argumentative writing elements from students and identified key phrases in patient notes from medical licensing exams.
Z by HP Releases Short Film Bringing Interactive Storytelling to the Data Science Community
February 17, 2022 by Leave a Comment
On Friday, February 18th, NBCUniversal and Z by HP will debut the first branded short film to stream on Peacock entitled, Unlocked, an action-packed thriller that takes viewers on an exciting adventure with data science at its core. Inspired by and created for data scientists, viewers will be taken on an interactive journey that unlocks an ancient mystery that can change the world.
NFL and AWS Launch AI Challenge to Crowdsource Ways to Automate Player Identification using NFL Game Footage
August 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The National Football League (NFL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new artificial intelligence Kaggle challenge to create ways for computers to automatically identify players using NFL game footage. New computer vision models created through the challenge will accelerate the NFL’s work with AWS to better understand, and aim to reduce, injuries in the NFL. Prize money totaling $100,000 will be awarded to data scientists with winning models.
Video Highlights: BigQuery + Notebooks: Building an Analytics Pipeline on Kaggle
September 5, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Your architecture choices impact how efficiently you’re able to use your data. In this “Snapshots” video produced by Kaggle, Data Scientist Wendy Kan demonstrates how she incorporates BigQuery and Kaggle Notebooks into her workflow. Watch her create an interactive network analysis graph that explores the most commonly installed Python packages!
Competition Uses AI to Combat Inequities in Early Childhood Education
October 28, 2019 by 1 Comment
Booz Allen Hamilton, Kaggle and PBS KIDS launched the fifth annual Data Science Bowl. This 90-day competition challenges thousands of data scientists and researchers from around the world to apply the power of artificial intelligence to combat inequities in early childhood education (ECE). More specifically, participants will create AI algorithms using anonymous gameplay data from the PBS KIDS Measure Up! App, which helps young children build math skills, to better understand children’s unique learning styles.
