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I'm selecting my final year (undergrad) project in the next couple of weeks. One of my professors posted a project that will simply be entering a competition on

by splike 12y ago

I'm selecting my final year (undergrad) project in the next couple of weeks. One of my professors posted a project that will simply be entering a competition on Kaggle. I don't know much about machine learning yet and I thought that this would be a great way to pick up something I've always been interested in. What does HN think of doing this?

QuantumChaos 12y ago
It sounds like a great idea. Even though the article is entirely correct in that Kaggle competitions are only a small part of machine learning, they are still a good way to learn some aspects. Even the data-cleaning that the author claims is missing from Kaggle competitions, is not really missing, it's just Kaggle have made your data cleaning much simpler. The main advice I would give is to find a problem where you can get an understanding of the data, i.e. not just treat it like a black box.