Learn Data Science by Doing Kaggle Competitions: Detect Distracted Drivers

NOTE TIME CHANGE To accommodate room availability, we'll start 30 minutes later than usual this week.

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!

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This week we will discuss the State Farm Distracted Driver Detection (https://www.kaggle.com/c/state-farm-distracted-driver-detection) competition. We will be guided through the competition by Ross Wightman, who placed an impressive 22nd (top 2%) on the leaderboard.

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!