Overview

This is an English translation of the sample code that accompanies the bestselling Japanese Kaggle book "Data Analysis Techniques to Win Kaggle" (Amazon Japan). PDF copies of the book can be purchased from the publisher's website from anywhere in the world using PayPal. The book's authors are by Daisuke Kadowaki (threecourse), Ryuji Sakata (Jack), Keisuke Hosaka (hskksk) and Yuji Hiramatsu (maxwell). It was first published on 9 October 2019 by Gijutsu-Hyohron Co., Ltd (ISBN-13: 978-4297108434).

Book cover:

Contents of each folder

Folder	Contents
input	Input files
ch01	Sample code for chapter 1
ch02	Sample code for chapter 2
ch03	Sample code for chapter 3
ch04	Sample code for chapter 4
ch05	Sample code for chapter 5
ch06	Sample code for chapter 6
ch07	Sample code for chapter 7
ch04-model-interface	Code for "class and directory structures for competitions" section of chapter 4

• Execute code with the each chapter folder directory as the current directory.
• For chapter 1, download the titanic data first as described in input/readme.md.
• For the chapter 4 model interface code, refer to ch04-model-interface/readme.md.

Requirements

The sample code has been checked for operability on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the following environment.

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Anaconda 2019.03 Python 3.7
• Necessary Python packages (check script below)

Use following script to set up GCP environment.

# utils -----

# Install required tools for development
cd ~/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev

# anaconda -----

# Download and install Anaconda
mkdir lib
wget --quiet https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-2019.03-Linux-x86_64.sh -O lib/anaconda.sh
/bin/bash lib/anaconda.sh -b

# Add to PATH
echo export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

# python packages -----

# Install Python packages
# Use Anaconda 2019.03 default versions for numpy, scipy and pandas
# pip install numpy==1.16.2 
# pip install scipy==1.2.1 
# pip install pandas==0.24.2
pip install scikit-learn==0.21.2

pip install xgboost==0.81
pip install lightgbm==2.2.2
pip install tensorflow==1.14.0
pip install keras==2.2.4
pip install hyperopt==0.1.1
pip install bhtsne==0.1.9
pip install rgf_python==3.4.0
pip install umap-learn==0.3.9

# set backend for matplotlib to Agg -----

# To execute on GCP, set matplotlib to backend
matplotlibrc_path=$(python -c "import site, os, fileinput; packages_dir = site.getsitepackages()[0]; print(os.path.join(packages_dir, 'matplotlib', 'mpl-data', 'matplotlibrc'))") && \
sed -i 's/^backend      : qt5agg/backend      : agg/' $matplotlibrc_path