A little help on Kaggle & Python

Why Kaggle?

  • It is a place that you can see tons of work fellow data miners have done.
  • It is a place that you can have access to a lot of datasets of different kinds.
  • You can use it as an IDE and start to write/execute python code, so you don't need to worry about setting up development environment for python on your computer (you just need a web browser). Besides, Kaggle has all the important python packages (e.g., numpy, pandas, sklearn) for you to use.

Start to use Kaggle?

  • To start: go to kaggle (kaggle.com), create an account for yourself if you don't have one yet, then you are ready to start.
  • Your "Hello World" program on kaggle: go to menu, select Notebooks, and then click on "New Notebook". You may choose notebook as the type (the other one is script). When the notebook opens up, write print("Hello World") in the blank, and you have your "Hello World" code on kaggle.

Python basics