Intro to Kaggle and UCI ML RepoMike Rudd

CS 480/680 Guest Lecture

Kaggle

The site for data science practitioners looking to hone their skills / show off

Hosts (sponsored) competitions to find better solutions to prediction problems

$$$ Cash Prizes $$$

Kernels

• Users post kernels (code snippets) to the site to help others trying to learn new ways of solving a problem

• Quite helpful for getting started

• *Directly copying these and submitting as your own work is an academic integrity violation*

Other Features

USER RANKINGS JOB BOARD FORUM

Kaggle Datasets

• 17,000 datasets from active and closed competitions

• Cover many disciplines:• “Classic” problems

• Computer vision

• NLP

• Medical

• Sports

UCI Machine Learning Repo

• Precursor to Kaggle

• Most (if not all) of the datasets have been posted on Kaggle by now

• Original data site