Guanshuo Xu | Achieving #1 Rank in Kaggle Competitions Tier | Alaska2 Winning Sol | CTDS.Show #91

Video version: https://youtu.be/lkUhibNLMNk

Subscribe here to the newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/sanyambhutani

In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Data Scientist at H2O.ai, the new King of Kaggle Competitions, new Rank 1: Dr. Guanshuo Xu

Guanshuo has just secured the title with his win in Alaska2 Image Steganalysis competition, in his journey he has achieved 15 gold medals, 15 silver medals, out of these 10 are solo gold 13 are solo Silver!

They talk about his journey on Kaggle, he shares a few advices around how you should approach Kaggle, and how his approach has changed, how he approaches competition and how he learned over the period of competing on Kaggle.

They also briefly discuss his solution to the Alaska2 competition as a proxy to understanding his approach to competitions.

They also talk about his role at H2O.ai and the projects that he is contributing to.

Links:

Alaska2 Comp Page: https://www.kaggle.com/c/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion

Solution Writeup: https://www.kaggle.com/c/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion/168548

Follow:

Dr. Guanshuo Xu:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guanshuo-xu/

https://www.kaggle.com/wowfattie

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

Blog: sanyambhutani.com

About:

https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

If you'd like to support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/chaitimedatascience

Intro track:

Flow by LiQWYD https://soundcloud.com/liqwyd