I never imagined I'd be Kaggle Grandmaster in a year: Karnika Kapoor

You need a unique blend of technical skills, mathematical expertise, storytelling, and insight to extract meaningful commercial value from data, said Kaggle Notebooks Grandmaster Karnika Kapoor. A BTech graduate from Kurukshetra University, she believes the possibility of the scope of improvement keeps life exciting. Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Karnika to understand her Kaggle Grandmaster journey and how she made the best of the pandemic-induced lockdowns to upskill herself. Karnika: I have a background in computer-aided design and drafting and computer-aided engineering. However, in terms of learning a programming language, I started learning a bit of the C syntax in my university while pursuing Btech in mechanical engineering.