Kaggle Competition - Part I
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R-ladies to enter Kaggle Competition!
The movie Titanic was great, and our team effort to figure out who lived and who died will be just as fantastic. This is a great opportunity to improve our data analysis and R skills on a large dataset.
We are going to have 3 meetings: August 28th, September 4th and September 11th.
Everyone is welcome to join. Even if you are not very experienced, you can still listen in on the discussions.
Agenda:
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking + Installing R and RStudio
6:30pm - 7:00 pm: Sign up at Kaggle, download the data
7:00 pm - 7:30pm: Set up a new data analysis project using ProjectTemplate (http://projecttemplate.net/)
7:30pm - 9:00pm - Data Exploration (plots, summaries, tables, etc)
- We will have snacks and drinks provided by Alpine Data Labs (http://alpinenow.com)
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https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic-gettingStarted
Predict survival on the Titanic (with tutorials in Excel, Python, R, and an introduction to Random Forests)
This Kaggle "Getting Started" Competition provides an ideal starting place for people who may not have a lot of experience in data science and machine learning. The data is highly structured, and we provide tutorials of increasing complexity for using Excel, Python, pandas in Python, and a Random Forest in Python (see links in the sidebar).
We also have links to tutorials using R instead. Please use the forums freely and as much as you like.
There is no such thing as a stupid question; we guarantee someone else will be wondering the same thing!
