Learn Data Science by Doing Kaggle Competitions: Dogs vs. Cats Redux

Thanks to the SFU Big Data Initiative (https://www.sfu.ca/vpresearch/bigdatainitiative.html) for sponsoring this meetup!

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We meet every two weeks to learn more about data science by discussing Kaggle competitions (https://www.kaggle.com). If you want to get better at data wrangling, feature engineering, model selection or just want to have fun solving non-trivial data science problems, this is the right group to join!

This time we will discuss Dogs vs. Cats Redux: Kernels Edition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats-redux-kernels-edition): distinguish images of dogs from cats This is one of the learner competitions and would be an excellent opportunity to get hands on with a classic deep learning kind of problem.

No presenter this week. Instead we're hoping that several people will try it out and share what they have worked on.

To get the most out of the meetup, please try to look at the competition beforehand. It's OK if you don't understand it all. The meetup is for questions and discussion.

At the end of the meeting we will discuss which competitions we want to look at for future meetups. Bring your suggestions!

7:00 Doors are open, feel free to mingle
7:30 Round-table discussion begins
~8:45 Pick the next competition, then off to a nearby restaurant for food, drinks, and breakout discussions