Sharing a study case from Kaggle competition, Facebook V: Predicting Check Ins data science competition. Hope will bring R users more possibilities using R doing Kaggle competition!
For community sharing usage.
Play Kaggle with R, Facebook V: Predicting Check Ins
1. 用 R 玩 Kaggle –
臉書打卡點預測
Play kaggle with R, Facebook V: Predicting Check Ins
@Mia (R-Ladies)
library(dplyr)
r-ladies_global %>%
filter(from = 'Taipei', travel_to = 'Lisbon')
2. The Agenda
First Second Third
Hey, Kaggle
# with R-Ladies
# with Masters
Play R
# Warm Up
# EDA, Shiny Apps
# Azure Jupyter
Notebook
Brief Intro
# About
R-Ladies
# About me
2
Last
Q&A
# Recap
# Resource
Sharing
5. Hello!
I am Mia Chang (張懷文).
▪ Data Scientist, Lecturer
▪ Member of R-Ladies Taipei
▪ Co-founder of Azure Taiwan Community
▪ Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) 2017
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14. “
Warm Up - 關於這個問題背景,問題定義
Three weeks into the eight-week competition,
I climbed to the top of the public leaderboard with
about 50 features
1. the summary data such as the number of historical check ins.
2. historical density of a place candidate, one year prior to the
observation.
3.All features are rescaled if needed in order to result in
similar interpretations for the train and test features.
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22. # 演算法及結論
#Rcpp
#It was expected that it
would be clearly correlated
with the variation in x and y
but the pattern is not as
obvious. Halfway through the
competition I cracked the
code ...
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24. Recap
First Second Third
Hey, Kaggle
# with R-Ladies
# with Masters
Play R
# Warm Up
# EDA, Shiny Apps
# Azure Jupyter
Notebook
Brief Intro
# About
R-Ladies
# About me
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Last
Q&A
# Recap
# Resource
Sharing
25. Action Item
First Second Third
Hi, Kaggle Play R
Get your
partners
Visit R-Ladies
R-Basic too!
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Then
...
26. Thanks for your listening!
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Look forward to your visit to R-Ladies Taipei! Also Azure Taiwan!
27. Bye!
I am Mia Chang (張懷文)
▪ mia5419@gmail.com
▪ facebook.com/mia5419
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Take Away & Reference
1.Use EDA to help you find
more feature.
2.Go to Kaggle website to get
more resource to help you:
forum, kernels
3.No matter you are
learning R or you are going
to traveling to visit other
R-Ladies, call us for more
resources :)
1. R-Ladies Meetup Page
2. R-Ladies Facebook Group
3. Blog Post by Tom Van de Wiele
- Detail about implementation
4. Github Repository
5. Shiny App by Tom Van de Wiele
- EDA that you can learn more
6. Kaggle Event Page
7. Microsoft Azure Notebooks