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Developing Kaggle Notebooks

Developing Kaggle Notebooks

By : Gabriel Preda
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Developing Kaggle Notebooks

Developing Kaggle Notebooks

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By: Gabriel Preda

Overview of this book

Developing Kaggle Notebooks introduces you to data analysis, with a focus on using Kaggle Notebooks to simultaneously achieve mastery in this fi eld and rise to the top of the Kaggle Notebooks tier. The book is structured as a sevenstep data analysis journey, exploring the features available in Kaggle Notebooks alongside various data analysis techniques. For each topic, we provide one or more notebooks, developing reusable analysis components through Kaggle's Utility Scripts feature, introduced progressively, initially as part of a notebook, and later extracted for use across future notebooks to enhance code reusability on Kaggle. It aims to make the notebooks' code more structured, easy to maintain, and readable. Although the focus of this book is on data analytics, some examples will guide you in preparing a complete machine learning pipeline using Kaggle Notebooks. Starting from initial data ingestion and data quality assessment, you'll move on to preliminary data analysis, advanced data exploration, feature qualifi cation to build a model baseline, and feature engineering. You'll also delve into hyperparameter tuning to iteratively refi ne your model and prepare for submission in Kaggle competitions. Additionally, the book touches on developing notebooks that leverage the power of generative AI using Kaggle Models.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Summary

In this chapter, we learned a little about the history of the Kaggle platform, its resources, and its capabilities. We then introduced the basics of how to create an account and start benefiting from the platform’s resources and interaction with other users.

Initially a platform only for predictive modeling competitions, Kaggle has grown to become a complex data platform, with sections for Competitions, Datasets, Code (Notebooks), and Discussions. Hence, we learned how you can move up the ranks by accumulating ranking points and medals in Competitions and medals in Datasets, Notebooks, and Discussions. In the future, it is possible that Kaggle will also add ranking points for other sections besides Competitions, although this is a subject of debate in the Kaggle community. Additionally, Kaggle provides a learning platform (with Learn) and Models (which can be used in Notebooks).

It’s now time to get ready for your trip around the data analysis world, using Kaggle resources. In the next chapter, you will learn how to use the full capacity of the platform to code, get familiar with the development environment, and learn how to use it to its maximum potential. Let’s get ready!

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