Diabetic Retinopathy Winner's Interview: 1st place, Ben Graham Ben Graham finished at the top of the leaderboard in the high-profileDiabetic Retinopathy competition. In this blog, he shares his approach on a high-level with key takeaways. Ben finishe…

CrowdFlower Winner's Interview: 1st place, Chenglong Chen The Crowdflower Search Results Relevance competition asked Kagglers to evaluate the accuracy of e-commerce search engines on a scale of 1-4 using a dataset of queries & results. Chenglong Chen…

How Much Did It Rain? Winner's Interview: 1st place, Devin Anzelmo An early insight into the importance of splitting the data on the number of radar scans in each row helped Devin Anzelmo take first place in the How Much Did It Rain? competition. In…

Facebook IV Winner's Interview: 1st place, Peter Best (aka fakeplastictrees) Peter Best (aka fakeplastictrees) took 1st place in Human or Robot?, our fourth Facebook recruiting competition. Finishing ahead of 984 other data scientists, Peter ignored…

Recruit Coupon Purchase Winner's Interview: 2nd place, Halla Yang Recruit Ponpare is Japan's leading joint coupon site, offering huge discounts on everything from hot yoga, to gourmet sushi, to a summer concert bonanza. The Recruit Coupon Purchase Pr…

Detecting diabetic retinopathy in eye images The past almost four months I have been competing in a Kaggle competition about diabetic retinopathy grading based on high-resolution eye images. In this post I try to reconstruct my progression through th…

Otto Product Classification Winner's Interview: 2nd place, Alexander Guschin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Otto Group Product Classification Challenge made Kaggle history as our most popular competition ever. Alexander Guschin finished in 2nd place ahead of 3,845 ot…

Liberty Mutual Property Inspection, Winner's Interview: Qingchen Wang The hugely popular Liberty Mutual Group: Property Inspection Prediction competition wrapped up on August 28, 2015 with Qingchen Wang at the top of a crowded leaderboard. A total of…

ICDM Winner's Interview: 3rd place, Roberto Diaz This summer, the ICDM 2015 conference sponsored a competitionfocused on making individual user connections across multiple digital devices. Top teams were invited to submit a paper for presentation at…

CIFAR-10 Competition Winners: Interviews with Dr. Ben Graham, Phil Culliton, & Zygmunt Zając Dr. Ben Graham Dr. Ben Graham is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Complexity at the University of Warwick. With a categorization accuracy of 0.95530…