Posts by Chris Deotte
Data Science
Sep 18, 2025
The Kaggle Grandmasters Playbook: 7 Battle-Tested Modeling Techniques for Tabular Data
Over hundreds of Kaggle competitions, we've refined a playbook that consistently lands us near the top of the leaderboard—no matter if we’re working with...
13 MIN READ
Data Science
May 22, 2025
Grandmaster Pro Tip: Winning First Place in a Kaggle Competition with Stacking Using cuML
What does it take to win a Kaggle competition in 2025? In the April Playground challenge, the goal was to predict how long users would listen to a podcast—and...
7 MIN READ
Data Science
Apr 17, 2025
Grandmaster Pro Tip: Winning First Place in Kaggle Competition with Feature Engineering Using cuDF pandas
Feature engineering remains one of the most effective ways to improve model accuracy when working with tabular data. Unlike domains such as NLP and computer...
5 MIN READ
Data Science
Aug 10, 2023
Pro Tips for Building Multilingual Recommender Systems
Picture this: You're browsing through an online store, looking for the perfect pair of running shoes. But with thousands of options available, where do you even...
12 MIN READ
Data Science
Apr 13, 2022
Fast Fine-Tuning of AI Transformers Using RAPIDS Machine Learning
In recent years, transformers have emerged as a powerful deep neural network architecture that has been proven to beat the state of the art in many application...
7 MIN READ
Data Science
Sep 23, 2021
Competition and Community Insights from NVIDIA’s Kaggle Grandmasters
In this post, we summarize questions and answers from GTC sessions with NVIDIA’s Kaggle Grandmaster team. Additionally, we answer audience questions we...
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