Lessons from 2 Million Machine Learning Models on Kaggle

Lessons from Kaggle competitions, including why XG Boosting is the top method for structured problems, Neural Networks and deep learning dominate unstructured problems (visuals, text, sound), and 2 types of problems for which Kaggle is suitable. Here is a summary of Anthony Goldbloom presentation at the Data Science Chicago Meetup, Nov 2 2015. Nice to see Anthony coming from financial statistics/econometrics (he mentioned his first job was with the Reserve Bank of Australia).