[competitive-data-science] Week 2

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): what and why?

• Better understand the data
• Build an intuition about the data
• Generate hypothesizes
• Find insights
• Please, do not start with stacking...

• Dato Winners' Interview: 1st place, Mad Professors: http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/12/03/dato-winners-interview-1st-place-mad-professors/
• With EDA we can:
• Get comfortable with the data
• Find magic features
• Do EDA first. Do not immediately dig into modeling.