kaggle Tabular Playground Series

Month long Kaggle competitions for students to practice machine learning

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Tabular Playground Series - Jan 2022

• Description - Sales forecasting (regression). Link to competition here.

• Evaluation - Submission evaluated on SMAPE

• Approach - Used Modeltime to test several machine learning models including Prophet, Xgboost, Prophet Boost, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, MARS and Cubist. Also tried several ensemble models. However, Xgboost provided the best (lowest) SMAPE afte hyper-parameter tuning.

• Source Code for Submission File - here.