Kaggle

5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2014 by Mike Abbott · said 65 times in 17 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Oct 16, 2014
Assertion Supported
Kaggle competition winners rely primarily on feature engineering and algorithm ensembles
“If you look at, you know, who wins most of the Kaggle competitions, it tends to be, you know, combinations of ensembles of different algorithms, but it's really the feature engineering.”
Mike Abbott Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 5:03 Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Nov 23, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Achin: DataRobot employees held Kaggle's top rank almost continuously for three years
“Basically, over the last three years, somebody from our company has been number, ranked number one almost the entire time.”
Jeremy Achin Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 2:03 Black Boxes and Unicorns - DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin
Nov 23, 2015 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Achin: Non-data scientist advisor placed 5th in Kaggle competition using DataRobot
“One of our advisors, who's not a data scientist, knows nothing about insurance he came in fifth place. And this is out of six hundred-something people including thirty-something Liberty Mutual employees that have competed.”
Jeremy Achin Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 19:55 Black Boxes and Unicorns - DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin
Apr 6, 2017 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Endor outperformed nearly 1,000 teams on a Kaggle benchmark
“Almost a thousand teams participated. And they were given three months, and you can see that the team who won the first place after us, they submitted almost 200 models, so they actually worked pretty hard, and as you can see here, our accuracy is significantl…”
Yaniv Altshuler Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 15:08 Rethinking Predictive Analytics // Yaniv Altshuler, Endor (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Nov 20, 2017
Assertion Contradicted
Fontana: Zetta was the largest investor in Kaggle when it sold
“We were the, Biggest investors in Kaggle when they sold on the board there.”
Ash Fontana Nov 20, 2017 ▶ 8:26 The Evolution and Impact of AI // Ash Fontana, Zetta Venture Partners
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