Getting in shape for Data Competition

This talk will be interesting to many who plan to participate in Heritage Health Prize, Kaggle, KDD-2011 or other data mining/analytics competitions

[ Gregory PS: This talk will be interesting to many who plan to participate in Heritage Health Prize, Kaggle, KDD-2011 or other data mining/analytics competitions data mining/analytics competitions ]

Kaggle "Getting In Shape For The Sport Of Data Science" Talk by Jeremy Howard, Kaggle Chief Data Scientist

Jeremy recently gave a talk to the Melbourne R meetup group, where gave a brief overview of his "data scientist's toolbox" (using a few Kaggle competitions as practical examples), and also provided an introduction to ensembles of decision trees (including the well-known Random Forest™ algorithm).

A screencast of this talk is now available at media.kaggle.com/MelbURN.html

Among must have tools, Jeremy lists

Data manipulation: Perl, Vim
Interactive analysis: Excel
Statistical toolkit: R (must use R packages caret; ggplot2)

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