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The Kaggle Book

You're reading from   The Kaggle Book Data analysis and machine learning for competitive data science

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817479
Length 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Massaron Luca Massaron
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Konrad Banachewicz Konrad Banachewicz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Part I: Introduction to Competitions
2. Introducing Kaggle and Other Data Science Competitions FREE CHAPTER 3. Organizing Data with Datasets 4. Working and Learning with Kaggle Notebooks 5. Leveraging Discussion Forums 6. Part II: Sharpening Your Skills for Competitions
7. Competition Tasks and Metrics 8. Designing Good Validation 9. Modeling for Tabular Competitions 10. Hyperparameter Optimization 11. Ensembling with Blending and Stacking Solutions 12. Modeling for Computer Vision 13. Modeling for NLP 14. Simulation and Optimization Competitions 15. Part III: Leveraging Competitions for Your Career
16. Creating Your Portfolio of Projects and Ideas 17. Finding New Professional Opportunities 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Setting up a dataset

In principle, any data you can use you can upload to Kaggle (subject to limitations; see the Legal caveats section later on). The specific limits at the time of writing are 100 GB per private dataset and a 100 GB total quota. Keep in mind that the size limit per single dataset is calculated uncompressed; uploading compressed versions speeds up the transfer but does not help against the limits. You can check the most recent documentation for the datasets at this link: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/datasets.

Kaggle promotes itself as a “home of data science” and the impressive collection of datasets available from the site certainly lends some credence to that claim. Not only can you find data on topics ranging from oil prices to anime recommendations, but it is also impressive how quickly data ends up there. When the emails of Anthony Fauci were released under the Freedom of Information Act in May 2021 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive...

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