Machine learning in a hurry: what I've learned from the SLICED ML competition

10 · David Robinson · July 21, 2021, 8:26 p.m.
This summer I’ve been competing in the SLICED machine learning competition, where contestants have two hours to open a new dataset, build a predictive model, and be scored as a Kaggle submission. Contestants are graded primarily on model performance, but also get points for visualization and storytelling, and from audience votes. Before SLICED I had almost no experience with competitive ML, so I learned a lot! As of today I’m 5th in the standings, short of the cutoff for the playoffs, so if you ...