# Bad Influence story: The Kaggle Book, 2nd edition, a guide to data science competitions

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-07 19:02. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/cc86b453-e354-4029-869e-ef7a69dd5a3a

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Latest update (11-07 19:02): The Kaggle Book, 2nd edition, is a guide to data science competitions

Overview: A second edition of The Kaggle Book is promoted as a guide to data science competitions, with a table of contents covering Kaggle notebooks, datasets, discussion forums, validation schemes, hyperparameter optimization, ensembling, and image classification and segmentation. A reviewer on Amazon describes it as about 700 pages, including about 500 pages on modeling techniques and evaluation metrics, and says it helps readers build a Kaggler portfolio. The source for these details is the book's promotion and one Amazon review; no independent evaluation is reported.

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1. 11-07 19:02 · X search: AI launch posts (introducing, just launched) · [The Kaggle Book, 2nd edition, is a guide to data science competitions](https://badinfluence.news/items/azk2vin1blgd5erp95gp5216u)
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