Anthony Goldbloom gives you the secret to winning Kaggle competitions - Import.io

Kaggle has become the premier Data Science competition where the best and the brightest turn out in droves – Kaggle has more than 400,000 users – to try and claim the glory. With so many Data Scientists vying to win each competition (around 100,000 entries/month), prospective entrants can use all the tips they can get. And who better than Kaggle CEO and Founder, Anthony Goldbloom, to dish out that advice? We caught up with him at Extract SF 2015 in October to pick his brain about how best to approach a Kaggle competition. According to Anthony, in the history of Kaggle competitions, there are only two Machine Learning approaches that win competitions: Handcrafted & Neural Networks.