PyData Bratislava Meetup #4 [No Free Hunch: Insights from Kaggle competitions]

PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData communities approach data science using many languages, including (but not limited to) Python, Julia, and R.

The PyData

Code of Conduct (http://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html)

governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1 512-222-5449;

leah@numfocus.org

) or the group organizer.

Event description:

Kaggle is a popular site for data science competitions with a vibrant community. Many people share tricks that they've used to tackle particular machine learning problems in blogs and forums.
In this lecture, I will show overview from some interesting competitions and what solutions people have come up with, including code examples wherever possible (and appropriate).

About speaker:

Michal Šustr, alumni from Artificial Intelligence at FEE CTU in Prague, intern at XRCE, currently 1 year at Blindspot Solutions. Previous lectures / workshops: http://lectures.ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalsustr/

GitHub: https://github.com/michalsustr

Registration: (https://github.com/michalsustr)

@Meetup.com group's event here (https://www.meetup.com/PyData-Bratislava/events/240372520/) & @Eventbrite registration here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pydata-bratislava-meetup-4-no-free-hunch-kaggle-competitions-insights-tickets-34958530907) (if you use both your seat is guarateed). +our event you can find also @Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/events/1968081896744598/).

[Disclaimer: If you just mark "going" @Facebook event we can't guarantee your seat]

Language of the event: Python, Slovak & English

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PyData Bratislava [Python Data Enthusiasts and Users, Data Scientists & Statisticians of all levels from Slovakia]

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This meetup group is for Data Scientists, Statisticians, Economists and Data Enthusiasts using Python for data analysis and data visualization. The goals are to provide Python enthusiasts a place to share ideas and learn from each other about how best to apply the language and tools to ever-evolving challenges in the vast realm of data management, processing, analytics, and visualization.

PyData is a group for users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. We gather to discuss how best to apply Python tools, as well as those using R and Julia, to meet the evolving challenges in data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData groups, events, and conferences aim to provide a venue for users acrossall the various domains of data analysis to share their experiences and their techniques. PyData is organized by NumFOCUS.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit in the United States.

The PyData ​Code of Conduct​ governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the organizer or NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1512-222-5449; leah@numfocus.org).

Our PyData Bratislava (Facebook group) you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1813599648877946/

Our PyData Bratislava (Twitter account) here: https://twitter.com/PyDataBA

Our PyData Bratislava (LinkedIn group) here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13506080

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