The Kaggle Book

Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Competitive Data Science

By: Konrad Banachewicz, Luca Massaron

Narrated by: Alex Freeman

Millions of data enthusiasts from around the world compete on Kaggle, the most famous data science competition platform of them all. Participating in Kaggle competitions is a surefire way to improve your data analysis skills, network with an amazing community of data scientists, and gain valuable experience to help grow your career.

The first audiobook of its kind, The Kaggle Book assembles in one place the techniques and skills you'll need for success in competitions, data science projects, and beyond. Two Kaggle grandmasters walk you through modeling strategies you won't easily find elsewhere, and the knowledge they've accumulated along the way. As well as Kaggle-specific tips, you'll learn more general techniques for approaching tasks based on image, tabular, textual data, and reinforcement learning. You'll design better validation schemes and work more comfortably with different evaluation metrics.

Whether you want to climb the ranks of Kaggle, build some more data science skills, or improve the accuracy of your existing models, this audiobook is for you.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Game Changer

This book is full of so much valuable information on how to get better at machine learning in general in addition to the competitions hosted in Kaggle. The technical breadth contained in both the audio and print versions make it a must have reference for anyone working in data.

Absolutely disastrous

In the Audiobook version of "The Kaggle Book," the narrator, Alex Freeman, consistently pronounces "Kaggle" KAY-guhl, like "kegel." The word "kaggle" is used in almost every sentence, sometimes more than once per sentence.

Kaggle (KAH-gul) is a data science platform. Kegel (KAY-guhl) is a pelvic floor exercise. Astonishingly, he does this even in the sentence where he says that the name was chosen to rhyme with "gaggle."

I contacted Packt to see if they could provide an explanation, but I couldn't get passed their GPT-generated form letters. All in all, a shameful adaptation to audiobook, and a bad sign for any Packt books I might see on Audible in the future.