DataHour: How to start your Kaggle journey?

The Kaggle community is one of the best places to learn and practice hands-on data science and machine learning skills. In this DataHour Martin will cover the following topics: 

• His experiences from his own journey to become Kaggle's first Notebooks Grandmaster. 
• The art of building insightful and engaging Kaggle notebooks
• Exploratory Data Analysis. 
• Lessons he learnt from running a weekly series aimed at promoting underrated Kaggle notebooks and their authors, 
• Insights on community dynamics and the broad ranges of creativity among Kagglers.
• Best ways to start or boost your Kaggle journey based on your goals.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Python programming and strong interest in Data Science.

Martin has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Technical University Munich and currently works as a Data Scientist at YipitData. He has extensive experience in data wrangling, EDA, and data visualization in Python & R; and is passionate about storytelling and communication.He is one of the top members of the Kaggle community as the first ever Kernels Grandmaster, and former number 1 in the Notebooks ranking, with 23 gold medals to his name. His granular level documentation is well lauded within the community. In addition, he is a Discussions Grandmaster with 108 Gold Medals.