How to get to top 8% on leaderboard for Kaggle competition beginners

Hands on guide on getting started with competitive Data Science

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Kaggle is a platform to explore our knowledge on Data Science, to learn new techniques or modelling from the experts. Kaggle competitions are the best way to evaluate our skill on competitive environment. Getting a better Kaggle rank is an indication of our hard work and achievement.

For this post I will be using the beginner classification challenge — Titanic: Machine Learning challenge

Today we will discuss :

• Knowing our Data
• Feature Engineering
• Dealing with missing Data
• Data Visualisation
• Data Preprocessing
• Dealing with outliers
• Models with hyper-parameter tuning
• Ensemble models with Voting classifier
• Submission

All the code

All the code for this task can be found here on Github: