Kaggle with Ben Hamner
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Data science competitions are an effective way to crowdsource the best solutions for challenging datasets.
Kaggle is a platform for data scientists to collaborate and compete on machine learning problems with the opportunity to win money from the competitions’ sponsors.
Ben Hamner is the co-founder and CTO of Kaggle.
Questions
- What is Kaggle?
- How does the experience of an individual competitor compare to the experience of a data science team?
- What is Kaggle’s tech stack?
- Do companies collect too much data?
- How do you use machine learning to convert neural patterns into control signals?