Creating Your Portfolio of Projects and Ideas

Participation on Kaggle has its benefits: scoring well in the four areas and consequently ranking high in the esteem of other Kagglers certainly brings satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment. However, your experience on Kaggle also has an impact beyond Kaggle and can help advance your career. It is not just the experience you gain from participating in competitions, experimenting on data you have never worked on before, or repeating experiments with new techniques; it is also the connections you create with other data scientists and the attention you may get from companies.

Although Kaggle is not fully recognized as a qualification by many companies, the work you do in competitions can demonstrate a lot about your capabilities and help you to stand out from the crowd. In this chapter, we will explore ways you can stand out by showcasing your work on Kaggle itself and other sites in an appropriate way. We will cover the following...