We had a great first Meetup with our fantastic sponsor Waytation. Here is a little summary about things that we discussed - the full slides can be found here.
Our motivation for the Vienna Kaggle Meetup is to gather with like-minded people, share and learn from each other. We love talks about Big Data and Machine Learning, but we prefer to get our hands dirty and do something. On Kaggle, we can find real datasets and real problems to solve. Paired with the competitions, the leaderboard and the active community this is a great place to gather practical experience. And when you get stuck in a competition, it is nice to have people around you to help.
The Vienna Kaggle Meetup will take place every 2-3 weeks with an alternating A/B Scheme. Scheme A is a pair programming session from 19h to max 23h, where we team up and code on competitions. Scheme B is a theory session from 19h - 21h, where we share and discuss insights, problems and solutions of the previous session. If we have time, we will also invite guest speakers to present Machine Learning theory.
The next session will be a Coding Session (Scheme A) and take place on November 19th 2015. Please vote for your favorite competition and bring your laptops. Note, that this will be in 3 weeks, due to a collision with the Visual Data Science Meetup.
I want to make this Meetup awesome for everybody, so please give me feedback about the first Event (takes less than 30 seconds)!
If you want to be a co-organizer, please send me a message or leave a comment in the Meetup group! If you want to contribute to this blog, please send a PR on Github.