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 […]

Maximizing Sales with Market Basket Analysis

Sales data analyses can provide a wealth of insights for any business but rarely is it made available to the public. In 2018, however, a retail chain provided Black Friday sales data on Kaggle as part of a Kaggle competition. Although the store and product lines are anonymized, the dataset presents a great learning opportunity to find business insights! In this post, we’ll cover how to prepare data, perform basic analysis, and glean additional insights via a technique called Market […]