Digit Recognizer - Introduction to Kaggle Competitions

Solving MNIST Digit Recognition Task (0.995)

In today’s article, I am going to show you how to master machine learning skills by participating in Kaggle data science competitions. We will solve a simple written digits recognition task (MNIST) and compare our results with others’. You will be challenged to master your analytical and coding skills in order to succeed in a highly competitive Kaggle community.

What is Kaggle?

Kaggle is an online community of data scientists and machine learners, owned by Google, Inc. Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges. Kaggle got its start by offering machine learning competitions and now also offers a public data platform, a cloud-based workbench for data science, and short form AI education.

Kaggle offers 5 main functionalities i.e Competitions, Datasets, Kernels, Discussion and Learn.