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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.
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Building a baseline model

As a result of our data analysis, we were able to identify some of the features with predictive value. We can now build a model by using this knowledge to select relevant features. We will start with a model that will use just two out of the many features we investigated. This is called a baseline model and it is used as a starting point for the incremental refinement of the solution.

For the baseline model, we chose a RandomForestClassifier model. The model is simple to use, gives good results with the default parameters, and can be interpreted easily, using feature importance.

Let’s begin with the following code block to implement the model. First, we import a few libraries that are needed to prepare the model. Then, we convert the categorical data to numerical. We need to do this since the model we chose deals with numbers only. The operation of converting the categorical feature values to numbers is called label encoding. Then, we split...

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