Collaboration Night!!! Dashboards; Kaggle Contests

This is a new event format aimed at bringing folks together for deeper discussions and learning. Its asked that everyone who participates has attempted to create a Dashboard (Tableau, et al, or tried a Kaggle contest (instructions below).

The reason these two topics were chosen is that there was a recent Coursera Data Science course such that some folks who took that would be able to attend without too much more leg-work. For those who didn't take the class, and wish to participate, then please visit either Kaggle or Tableau's website - each has thorough instructions on how to get started.

http://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic-gettingStarted

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/training

Also, please note for the Coursera Data Science assignments on Kaggle and Tableau we were given very little guidance. Both were pretty much do-it-yourself, and given it was an assignment that it was our motivation. The amount on time on each of these varied among students - perhaps most fell into a time commitment of 4-10 hours. For example, please see the following dashboard (other tabs are for the Coursera assignment).

http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/VisualizationAssignment_752/StartHere

http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/VisualizationAssignment_752/6_CustomDashboard

If you want to see more than change the 752 to a 1, then 2, ... or 50, 888 (used filters), etc. Most Coursera students just used the default charts, and no filters.