mlandry22
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8 years ago Oh, how about a team name? Simplest is the three parts: H2O.ai + JohnM + DataGeek or H2O.ai, Ctrl+Alt+Del & DataGeek
It's complicated for me, but I usually want H2O.ai in there, particularly since I think we can do well. Now you might be thinking "Mark, you're using R for this, not H2O". Well three answers to that: one, I was still using H2O because it was faster to run things; I am trying to find a transformation that allows me to be able to use MSE for this (which is why I can't use H2O directly); Arno is looking into MAE for H2O, though it surely won't be before H2O World (~2 weeks). More than you wanted to read about a silly marketing thing. But I think it's defendable here.
JohnM-TX
ThakurRajAnand
Welcome John and Thakur! Let's hope the three of us can do some fun stuff with this one. I wouldn't be surprised if some small ideas plus a lot of blending go a long way. Let's hope between the three of us we can find those small ideas and hopefully somebody can be working on this while the others are busy with other things (that's how these things go, usually).
Years ago, I told Thakur I really wanted to get him his master's status. We were so, so close in the credit one, just losing out on the last couple days of what turned into a sprint to the finish. Maybe this will be a top 10 finish for us.
There's no right/wrong organization, but I figure we can use this thread for any team related stuff.
For me, my main purpose here is to get robust methods that make it easy to do competitions in a scalable way. Finishing fifth in the Rain Part 1, I'd like to do well here. But they've simplified the problem in ways that the parts I did the best on aren't as big a deal here. We'll see. Again, hopefully we will all provide a little value in our own ways.