The Kaggle Workbook

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Vision Competition – Cassava Leaf Disease Competition

In this chapter, we will leave the domain of tabular data and focus on computer vision. In order to demonstrate the steps necessary to do well in classification competitions, we will use the data from the Cassava Leaf Disease contest: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/cassava-leaf-disease-classification.

The first thing to do upon starting a Kaggle competition is to read the description properly:

As the second-largest provider of carbohydrates in Africa, cassava is a key food security crop grown by smallholder farmers because it can withstand harsh conditions. At least 80% of household farms in Sub-Saharan Africa grow this starchy root, but viral diseases are major sources of poor yields. ...