Bachelor 2024/2025

How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers

Type: Elective course (Applied Mathematics and Information Science)

Area of studies: Applied Mathematics and Information Science

Delivered by: Big Data and Information Retrieval School

Where: Faculty of Computer Science

When: 4 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: distance learning

Online hours: 32

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course consists of an overview of successful practices in competitive data analysis. A detailed analysis of the winning solutions is provided, as well as simple solutions that show high quality on real data. Particular attention is paid to visualizing tabular data, searching for features in the data (gaps, inconsistencies, anomalies) and generating new features.