trojrobert/kaggle-recruit-restaurant

:trophy: Kaggle 8th place solution

Kaggle recruit restaurant solution

My solution ranked 8th out of 2216 on the Recruit Restaurant Visitor Forecasting Kaggle competition. The solution focuses on targeted feature engineering and LightGBM cross-validation.

1. Have Python 3 installed
2. Download the Kaggle data from here
3. Download the weather data from here
4. Run pip install -r requirements.txt (using a virtual environment is good practice)
5. Install LightGBM
6. Run jupyter notebook
7. Open the Solution.ipynb notebook