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Microsoft Malware Winners' Interview: 1st place, "NO to overfitting!"
Team "say NOOOOO to overfittttting" did just that and took first place in the Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge. Sponsored by the WWW 2015 / BIG 2015 conferences, competitors were given nearly half a terabyte of data (when uncompressed!) and tasked with classifying variants of malware into their respective families. This blog outlines their winning approach and includes key visuals from their analysis. Little Boat: I was learning Python by doing the Harvard CS109 online, and was trying to find some practical projects to do. Then Google suggested Kaggle (not surprised!).