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March Machine Learning Mania, 5th Place Winner's Interview: David Scott
Kaggle's annual March Machine Learning Mania competition drew 442 teams to predict the outcomes of the 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. In this winner's interview, Kaggler David Scott describes...
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2017 Data Science Bowl, Predicting Lung Cancer: 2nd Place Solution Write-up,...
This team's solution write-up was originally published here by Daniel Hammack and cross-posted on No Free Hunch with their permission. Foreward Julian and I independently wrote summaries of our...
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The Nature Conservancy Fisheries Monitoring Competition, 1st Place Winner's...
This year, The Nature Conservancy Fisheries Monitoring competition challenged the Kaggle community to develop algorithms that automatically detects and classifies species of sea life that fishing...
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Intel & MobileODT Cervical Cancer Screening Competition, 1st Place Winner's...
In June of 2017, Intel partnered with MobileODT to challenge Kagglers to develop an algorithm with tangible, real-world impact–accurately identify a woman’s cervix type in images. This is really...
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August Kaggle Dataset Publishing Awards Winners' Interview
In August, over 350 new datasets were published on Kaggle, in part sparked by our $10,000 Datasets Publishing Award. This interview delves into the stories and background of August's three winners–Ugo...
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Instacart Market Basket Analysis, Winner's Interview: 2nd place, Kazuki Onodera
Our recent Instacart Market Basket Analysis competition challenged Kagglers to predict which grocery products an Instacart consumer will purchase again and when. Imagine, for example, having milk ready...
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Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space, 1st Place Winner's Interview
In our recent Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space competition, Planet challenged the Kaggle community to label satellite images from the Amazon basin, in order to better track and understand...
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October Kaggle Dataset Publishing Awards Winners' Interview
This interview features the stories and backgrounds of the October winners of our $10,000 Datasets Publishing Award–Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, Etienne Le Quéré, and Felipe Antunes. If you're inspired to...
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Carvana Image Masking Challenge–1st Place Winner's Interview
This year, Carvana, a successful online used car startup, challenged the Kaggle community to develop an algorithm that automatically removes the photo studio background. This would allow Carvana to...
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Mercedes-Benz Greener Masking Challenge Masking Challenge–1st Place Winner's...
To ensure the safety and reliability of each and every unique car configuration before they hit the road, Daimler’s engineers have developed a robust testing system. But, optimizing the speed of their...
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Our Final Kaggle Dataset Publishing Awards Winners' Interviews (November 2017...
As we move into 2018, the monthly Datasets Publishing Awards has concluded. We're pleased to have recognized many publishers of high-quality, original, and impactful datasets. It was only a little over...
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A Brief Summary of the Kaggle Text Normalization Challenge
This post is written by Richard Sproat & Kyle Gorman from Google's Speech & Language Algorithms Team. They hosted the recent, Text Normalization Challenges. Bios below. Now that the Kaggle Text...
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From Kaggle competition to start-up and tracking 2 million km² of forest
This is a guest post written by Kaggle Competition Master and part of a team that achieved 5th position in the 'Planet: Understanding the Amazon from Space' competition, Indra den Bakker. In this...
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Profiling Top Kagglers: Bestfitting, Currently #1 in the World
We have a new #1 on our leaderboard – a competitor who surprisingly joined the platform just two years ago. Shubin Dai, better known as Bestfitting on Kaggle or Bingo by his friends, is a data...
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Mother's Day Interview: How Nicole Finnie Became a Competitive Kaggler on...
As Kaggle’s moderating data scientist for the Data Science Bowl, I’m fortunate to have met first-time competitor Nicole Finnie. Her team (Unet Nuke) impressively ranked within the top 2%, earning...
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Profiling Top Kagglers: Martin Henze (AKA Heads or Tails), World's First...
Let me begin by introducing myself: My name is Martin. I'm an astrophysics postdoc working on understanding exploding stars in nearby galaxies. From the very beginning of my studies, I was using data...
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Winner Interview | Particle Tracking Challenge first runner-up, Pei-Lien Chou
What does it take to get almost to the top? Meet Pei-Lien Chou, the worthy runner-up in our recent MLTrack Particle Tracking Challenge. We invited him to tell us about how he placed so well in this...
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From a Night of Insomnia to Competition Winner | An Interview with Martin Barron
Last year we took our annual data science survey to the next level by turning over the results to YOU through an open-ended Kernel competition. We were overwhelmed by the response and quality of...
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Hackathon Winner Interview: RUDN University | Kaggle University Club
Welcome to the second installment of our University Club winner interviews! Today’s university students are tomorrow’s leading data scientists. That's the catalyst for Kaggle University Club — a...
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Hackathon Winner Interview: Hanyang University | Kaggle University Club
Welcome to the third and final installment of our University Club winner interviews! This week the spotlight is on a top-scoring university team, TEAM-EDA from Hanyang University in Korea! Today’s...
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