I started my journey in analytics in August 2014 through an online course. Then came AV which gave a newbie like me a platform when my first article was published.Thereafter the association with AV has grown to AV being my guide and mentor.

I learnt a lot by participating in various Hackathons conducted by Analytics Vidhya during last three years. One obvious benefit is given a dataset I can intuitively understand what works best which I apply in real life problems efficiently

I usually start with looking at the data and checking the distribution of features and target variables which involves a lot of group by commands.Once I settle for an initial feature set, I train a basic model to see where I am in the leaderboard.