Ben Hamner

Chief Scientist, Kaggle, USA

How to run competitions effectively on the Kaggle platform

I will cover any of the following topics (among others):

• • The biggest mistakes to avoid in designing competitions

  • Methodologies and processes machine learning engineers follow to repeatedly win competitions

  • What competitions are great for & what they're not great for

  • Transitioning results from research competitions to production implementations

  • Dynamics of competition participation (how the leaderboard drives performance, validation set vs. holdout set, etc.)