Winning Data Science Competitions

Hello Makers!

H2O.ai is coming to Bangalore! Join us for a day of training and a hands-on workshop with Kaggle #1, Sudalai Rajkumar (SRK) from H2O.ai and Prof Dinesh Kumar from IIM-B.

Description:
What does it take to participate in a Data Science Competition (DSC)? Why should I participate in a DSC? Which are the competitions to target?

How to win a DSC? How would Kaggle rankings impact my career and job search? If these questions concern you, we invite you to participate in this one-day workshop. The workshop is organised by the Data Centre and Analytics Lab (DCAL) – a Centre of Excellence in analytics at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) in collaboration with H2O.ai – the makers of H2O, the leading open source data science and machine learning platform.

Please reserve your spot here: http://dcal.iimb.ernet.in/upcoming-events.html

The workshop aims at honing your data modeling skills. We will take you
through the following in the hands-on workshop:
» Exploratory Data Analysis » Validation Strategy
» Feature Engineering » Evaluation Metrics
» Modeling Methodologies » Parameter Tuning
» Ensembling / Stacking » Tips and Tricks

Pre-requisites
» Basic understanding of analytical / supervised learning models
» Basic understanding of python
» Participants need to bring their own laptop with python installed in it

Intended participants

The workshop is suitable for those who are exposed to machine learning models. If you are a budding data scientist with some modeling experience and looking for ways to improve your modeling skills, then this is an ideal one for you.

Instructors
The workshop is led by a team of data scientist and a Kaggle Grandmaster.

They will not just tell you on how to get a top-rank solution but will also help you improve upon your theoretical background to fill any gap in machine learning.

Prof. U Dinesh Kumar – Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Decision Science and Information Systems Area at IIMB. He is also the Chairperson of DCAL. Dr. Dinesh has been recognized as one of the Top 10 most prominent analytics academicians in India for his extensive research. Dinesh has authored a book titled, “Business Analytics - The Science of Data Driven Decision Making” and has written more than 30 case studies on application of analytics by Indian MNCs. He is the governing
council member of the Karnataka Government’s Centre of Excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence set up in collaboration with NASSCOM.

Sudalai Rajkumar – Sudalai Rajkumar is a Data Scientist at H2O.ai Inc, building Driverless AI, an automated machine learning platform. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore. He takes part in various data science competitions to enhance his knowledge and has won several of them. Popularly known as SRK in the Data Science circle, he is a Kaggle Grandmaster in Competitions (Highest Rank-13) Kernels section (Rank 1).
He is also ranked 2 currently in the Analytics Vidhya Hackathon platform. He is also one of the top solvers in CrowdAnalytix platform. He is a Data
scientist by day and Kaggler by night.