Tool: Kaggle

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What Is Kaggle?

Kaggle is an online community of data scientists and machine learners, owned by Google. Kaggle began in 2017 as a site that offered machine learning competitions, and has since expanded into a public data sharing platform, as well as a host for machine learning educational services.

How Can Kaggle Help You?

Kaggle provides various services that help people to improve their knowledge about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science. Their machine learning competitions provide challenges to people at various levels of machine learning expertise, ranging from research challenges, problems based in commerce, as well as challenges that are for fun and geared toward people looking to gain practice using machine learning technologies.

Anyone can explore, analyze, and share data on Kaggle. The site encourages users to publish their datasets using accessible and non-proprietary formats for more easily ensured usability.

For people looking to hone their data science and management skills, Kaggle offers courses in areas like SQL, Python, and R, as well as deep learning and data visualization.

How Do You Access Their Materials?

Visit their website! All of their resources are available for free through Kaggle.com; anyone can view datasets without having an account, and anyone can create an account to participate in challenges or take courses.

Who Uses Kaggle?

Companies such as Zillow use Kaggle as a hosting site for competitions and machine learning challenges. As a place for sharing datasets, Kaggle is used by several municipalities, including Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, as well as organizations like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and NOAA.

This information was adopted from kaggle.com and Wikipedia