Machine Learning is Kaggle Competitions

Last Updated on September 5, 2016

Julia Evans wrote a post recently titled “Machine learning isn’t Kaggle competitions“.

It was an interesting post because it pointed out an important truth. If you want to solve business problems using machine learning, doing well at Kaggle competitions is not a good indicator of that skills. The rationale is that the work required to do well in a Kaggle competition is only a piece of what is required to deliver a business benefit.

This is an important point to consider, especially if you are just starting out and find yourself struggling to do well on the leaderboards. In this post we ruminate on how competitive machine learning relates to applied machine learning.

Competitions vs the “Real World”

Julia made an attempt at a Kaggle competition and did not do well. The problem was that she does machine learning as part of her role at Stripe. It was this disconnect from what makes her good
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