/kaggle

code used for kaggle competitions

Primary LanguagePython

Kaggle Competitions I participated in

Springleaf competition

  • Entry scored top 10%, 120th place out of 2200 entries
  • Entry based on xgboost, using a wrapper
  • Model includes heavily optimized parameters for xgboost and a few metafeatures
  • Constant columns removed
  • String columns encoded
  • Logging of cross validation scoring
  • Ability to modify batch sizes for running on machines without enough RAM