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

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!

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This time we will re-visit the practice competition Dogs vs. Cats Redux: Kernels Edition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats-redux-kernels-edition). Paul participated in the competition and will walk us through it. (Thanks, Paul!)

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.

6:00 Doors are open, feel free to mingle
6:30 Presentation and discussion begins
~7:45 Pick the next competition, then off to a nearby restaurant for food, drinks, and breakout discussions