Kaggle Solution: What’s Cooking ? (Text Mining Competition)
Introduction
Tutorial on Text Mining, XGBoost and Ensemble Modeling in R
I came across What’s Cooking competition on Kaggle last week. At first, I was intrigued by its name. I checked it and realized that this competition is about to finish. My bad! It was a text mining competition. This competition went live for 103 days and ended on 20th December 2015.
Still, I decided to test my skills. I downloaded the data set, built a model and managed to get a score of 0.79817 in the end. Even though, my submission wasn’t accepted after the competition got over, but I could check my score. This got me in top 20 percentile.
I used Text Mining, XGBoost and Ensemble Modeling to get this score. And, I used R. It took me less than 6 hours to achieve this milestone. I teamed up with Rohit Hinduja, who is currently interning at Analytics Vidhya.
To help beginners in R, here is my solution in a tutorial