[omaha] Group Data Science Competition

[Bob Haffner]

Good deal. That's 3 of us (Naomi, you and me) by my count.  Hopefully others will join in!!

 I would be game for a December meetup. 

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> On Oct 18, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Steve Young via Omaha <omaha at python.org> wrote:
> 
> I would enjoy participating, and learning what you data guys and gals do.
> (I am not a math guy)
> 
> If Hubert does not take December, maybe we could have a sprint that night?
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Wes Turner via Omaha <omaha at python.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Monday, October 17, 2016, Bob Haffner via Omaha <omaha at python.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> A few months ago someone brought up the idea of doing a Kaggle data
>> science
>>> competition as a group.  Is there still interest in this?
>>> 
>>> Some thoughts.
>>> Not sure of the details, but Kaggle allows individuals to form groups.
>> We
>>> could collaborate thru email (or perhaps something like Slack) and maybe
>>> meet occasionally.  When it's all said and done, we could present at a
>>> monthly meeting.
>> 
>> 
>> A GitHub (repo, issues, and sphinx docs/ and/or GH wiki) could also be
>> useful:
>> 
>> - gh-pages branch built from docs/ and nb/
>>  - .ipynb in notebooks/ or nb/
>> - https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage/ has packaging and
>> ReadTheDocs config
>> -
>> https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/master/
>> scipy-notebook/Dockerfile
>> includes conda
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> This one looks good.  Doesn't end till March 1st which gives us some time
>>> and it doesn't look overly complicated.  No prize money, though :-)
>>> https://www.kaggle.com/c/house-prices-advanced-regression-techniques
>> 
>> 
>> - http://rhiever.github.io/tpot/examples/Boston_Example/
>> 
>>  - TPOT can utilize XGBoost (as mentioned in the Kaggle competition
>> description)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> - https://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks/
>> 
>> 
>>> Forming groups
>>> https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/FormingATeam
>>> 
>>> Would love to get some feedback on any of this
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
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