Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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575
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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Abstract #314606
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Title:
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Kaggle as a Course
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Author(s):
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Michael Schuckers*
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Companies:
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St. Lawrence University
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Keywords:
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kaggle ;
data science ;
capstone ;
munging ;
competitions
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Abstract:
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St. Lawrence University is a liberal arts college of approximately 2450 students with a very active Statistics minor of approximately 40 students per year within the Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Department. All senior majors in the department are required to take a senior capstone experience. During the Spring semester of 2013, I offered 'Kaggle As a Course' as a senior seminar capstone. Kaggle in this case is the website kaggle.com which `is the world's largest community of data scientists' where data scientists `compete with each other to solve complex data science problems...'(kaggle.com/about). The focus of the course was to have students compete in current or ongoing kaggle competitions. In this talk I will describe the opportunities and challenges, the rewards and drawbacks about using kaggle as a basis for a course.
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