Predict if a Machine Will Soon be Hit with Malware

We'll be meeting to discuss current Kaggle competitions, including the Microsoft Malware Prediction Challenge. Please bring laptops and questions for the group.

Read and join a competition beforehand

• https://www.kaggle.com/c/microsoft-malware-prediction
• https://www.kaggle.com/c/quora-insincere-questions-classification
• https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation

We are up to chapter 6.2 in Deep Learning with Python. Alternatively you can do https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/sequences/recurrent to prep.

We will be pair programming. It's best if you are comfortable with Python scientific stack and TensorFlow.

Chat with us https://kagglenyc.com/ so you can join our team

Call 757.401.0184 if you have issues finding us.

Data Science Interview Questions:

1. How do you deal with very unbalanced dependent variable classes?
2. What are two types of regression regularization and how do they differ?

Agenda:
6:00-6:30 Discussion Data Science Interview questions
6:30-7:00 Discussion on Kaggle Challenge
7:00-7:15 Introductions
7:15-8:00 Continue Kaggle discussion / set goals for next week