Anthony Goldbloom — How to Win Kaggle Competitions

Anthony Goldbloom is the founder and CEO of Kaggle. In 2011 & 2012, Forbes Magazine named Anthony as one of the 30 under 30 in technology. In 2011, Fast Company featured him as one of the innovative thinkers who are changing the future of business.

He and Lukas discuss the differences in strategies that do well in Kaggle competitions vs academia vs in production. They discuss his 2016 Ted talk through the lens of 2020, frameworks, and languages.

Topics Discussed:

0:00 Sneak Peek

0:20 Introduction

0:45 methods used in kaggle competitions vs mainstream academia

2:30 Feature engineering

3:55 Kaggle Competitions now vs 10 years ago

8:35 Data augmentation strategies

10:06 Overfitting in Kaggle Competitions

12:53 How to not overfit

14:11 Kaggle competitions vs the real world

18:15 Getting into ML through Kaggle

22:03 Other Kaggle products

25:48 Favorite under appreciated kernel or dataset

28:27 Python & R

32:03 Frameworks

35:15 2016 Ted talk though the lens of 2020

37:54 Reinforcement Learning

38:43 What’s the topic in ML that people don’t talk about enough?

42:02 Where are the biggest bottlenecks in deploying ML software?

Check out Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/

Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/antgoldbloom

Watch his 2016 Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_goldbloom_the_jobs_we_ll_lose_to_machines_and_the_ones_we_won_t

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