Hey Peter. Pretty awesome feat! Thanks for all the work you put into the ensemble module!
A blog post about this competition would really be great :) I was wondering, was there much difference in performance between GBRT and RF? We should do a "hall of fame" on the website listing citations and real world applications! Cheers, Andy On 07/05/2012 07:54 AM, Peter Prettenhofer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > thanks a lot for your congratulations. It has been a tight race indeed > and I have to consider myself lucky that I ended up on the first place > - as Olivier already said score differences among the top teams are > really small. > > Anyways, it's a great opportunity to "spread the word" - sklearn > turned out to be really handy in this competition, especially the fact > that it is so flexible - in particular, I'm referring to the grid > search and cross validation components - I haven't checked who > authored those modules but be wary: I owe you a beer! > > I've to check with the competition organizers whether its ok to put > the source code on github - I'll keep you posted. > > best, > Peter > > PS: I owe Wes McKinney of pandas fame more than one beer... > > 2012/7/5 LI Wei <[email protected]>: >> Congrats! >> >> I have participated as well and do not have the time to look into the >> problem before it finishes. It is rather impressive as many regular winners >> participating and Peter stands out. >> >> Best, >> LI, Wei >> >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Gilles Louppe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Congratulations Peter :-) >>> >>> On 5 July 2012 04:57, xinfan meng <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Congratulations to Perter. This is a great demonstration and >>>> advertisement >>>> for scikit-learn. I really want to know how Peter develop his wining >>>> strategy. Have he written something about this? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Gael Varoquaux >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:48:17PM +0100, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: >>>>>> As some of you may have already noticed, Peter (Prettenhofer) has >>>>>> just won a the "Online Product Sales" competition on kaggle.com >>>>>> beating 365 teams: >>>>>> http://www.kaggle.com/c/online-sales/leaderboard >>>>> This is indeed great. Certainly a win for the scikit-learn community. >>>>> Thanks Peter for your investment in scikit-learn. 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