> Kaggle encourages a domain agnostic approach to modeling, in the sense that participants use sophisticated machine learning and statistical methods but typica

> Kaggle encourages a domain agnostic approach to modeling, in the sense that participants use sophisticated machine learning and statistical methods but typically have no domain expertise in the underlying data. Yes this is accurate and put very well. This is so much the case that if you have a strong background understanding of the field, the ML part can actually be picked up quite quickly or contributed by someone else. There are a few notable users who are both domain and ML experts and they tend to absolutely clean up in their field. I'm thinking of a couple of med students in particular who are formidable in every medical imaging competition.