I think Kaggle participants miss out on some of the best parts of being a Data Scientist. Fiddling with data, writing scripts to clean/transform/ingest data, i

I think Kaggle participants miss out on some of the best parts of being a Data Scientist. Fiddling with data, writing scripts to clean/transform/ingest data, interacting with data owners and subject matter experts, etc. IME that's actually a lot more fun than fiddling with parameters and looking at model performance metrics.