How To Find Success In Kaggle: What Do The Masters Recommend

The challenges in the real world get more complex and competing than an online competition. Hackathon might not paint the exact picture, and the success at these competitions should not be mistaken for expertise at the industry level. However, Kaggle, one of the world's finest platforms for data scientists, gives aspirants the best possible introduction into the tricky world of data. Analytics India Magazine has been exclusively covering the stories of top Kagglers, and today we compile a few nuggets of wisdom from those interviews that can guide an aspirant. "A right proportion of hard work, dedication, persistence, never giving up attitude and luck are the most important ingredients that helped me," said Abhishek Thakur when asked about his Kaggle success and what made him the world's first 4x grandmaster. When asked about what it takes to get to the top, Darragh, a Kaggle grandmaster, recollecting Jermey Howard, said that the best practitioners in machine learning all share one particular trait in common; they're very, very tenacious.