There is an interesting challenge running on Kaggle at the moment. It has been designed in cooperation with the Coleridge Initiative (https://coleridgeinitiative.org/) . This initiative is established at the New York University, it’s goal is to facilitate data driven decision making by governments. In the challenge we get ...

Today we will go through a practical code review example. I will analyze some code chunks I used during the Kaggle ACEA challenge. The code chunks come from a function I used to run my final model using Caret in R. Code review is a very important step in any ...

Great code review is one of the most underrated skills a Data Scientist can have. In this blog I will share my top 3 code review checklist, specifically for R Code. In our data science team we regularly do code review to make sure it is up to the standard it ...

This is blog 3 of my endeavors for the currently ongoing Kaggle challenge posted by ACEA. A short introduction of the challenge is below. What I am trying to do with these blogs is not to create perfect tutorials that contain perfectly revised code, but rather document my own learning process ...

About 2 week ago, yes right around the New year, I was browsing Kaggle just for fun. It made me remember how much fun it actually is to play around with random data. Not only that but very often with a cool purpose too. One of my new year goals is ...