How To Win Machine Learning Competitions

Looking to kickstart your career in Data Science? Entering machine learning competitions is a great way to learn the intricacies of various modeling techniques, prepare for job interviews, and of course, win some cash 💸

Joining us for this event is Data Scientist and bitgrit AI competition winner Nikhil Mishra, who will share his experience & tips for aspiring data scientists. Nikhil recently won bitgrit’s #SwipeToSuccess machine learning challenge, along with a $10,000 first place prize. This competition’s aim was to optimize a profile-matching algorithm for a professional networking app in India and Japan called yenta.

During this event, Nikhil will share a summary of his solutions to the competition challenge and the approach that ultimately brought him victory 🏆

Key points:
Why join online machine learning competitions, and how?
Overview of the #SwipeToSuccess AI competition
Nikhil’s steps to first place: approaching the challenge and structure solution, tools used, time spent developing the end-to-end solution, summary of his solutions, tips & insights
Introduction of bitgrit’s new AI competition, the Video Popularity Prediction Challenge

Join us on Feb. 1 for this insightful talk session, brought to you by bitgrit and Le Wagon Tokyo!

📌 Agenda:
7:00 - Zoom opens
7:05 - 8:00 - event session
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🚀About bitgrit🚀
bitgrit Inc. (https://bitgrit.net/) is an online data science platform that includes AI competitions, a job board for data scientists and analysts, and our end goal is a fully functional AI Marketplace where companies and engineers can exchange algorithms and payment freely on a blockchain platform.

Check out their latest AI competition with a grand prize of $3,000 at https://bitgrit.net/competition/11 🏆

🚀About Le Wagon🚀
Le Wagon Tokyo (https://www.lewagon.com/tokyo) is a global top-rated coding school for creative people, entrepreneurs and anyone willing to dive into tech. Our first 24-week part-time Data Science bootcamp will start on February 20th: https://www.lewagon.com/tokyo/data-science-course/part-time

Our full-time Data Science bootcamp will start on Apr 12th: https://www.lewagon.com/tokyo/data-science-course/full-time