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Machine Learning Solutions
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Machine Learning Solutions

by Jalaj Thanaki
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
566 pages
12h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Appendix B. Strategy for Wining Hackathons

This appendix is really interesting because here we are discussing two important aspects. Those two aspects are as follows:

  • Strategy for winning hackathons
  • Keeping up to date

So let's begin.

Strategy for winning hackathons

If you want to win hackathons or any Kaggle competition, then these are the things to keep in mind: 

  • Try to start as soon as you encounter the competition.
  • Do exploratory data analysis properly. This will really help you build a good solution.
  • Try to achieve a base-line model in the first five iterations.
  • Track your own progress as well as track progress of others by checking out public and private leaderboards.
  • Try different approaches and be innovative.
  • Ask appropriate questions in forums but ...
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ISBN: 9781788390040Supplemental Content