Kaggle: Find & Publish Data Sets
Discover datasets, build models, collaborate with others, and participate in competitions on the popular online platform for data scientists and machine learning engineers.
What is Kaggle?
Kaggle is an online platform and community for data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and others interested in data science. Founded in 2010, it has become a hugely popular resource for the data science community.
Some key features and components of Kaggle include:
- Data sets - Kaggle hosts a large repository of publicly and privately available data sets across many domains like finance, healthcare, retail, and more. These are contributed both by Kaggle itself as well as users and companies.
- Notebooks - Kaggle provides cloud-based Jupyter Notebook environments for exploring data sets, modeling, visualization, and other data science work. Users can easily get started without needing to configure local environments.
- Competitions - Companies and researchers post machine learning competitions on Kaggle as a way to source innovative solutions to their problems. Competitors can win prizes and recognition.
- Discussion forums - The forums enable discussions about data sets, modeling approaches, and more among the Kaggle community members.
- Jobs board - Companies can post data science and machine learning job openings and search for candidates on the Kaggle jobs board.
By bringing together data sets, cloud infrastructure, competitions, and community in one platform, Kaggle has become an essential portal for data scientists and ML engineers to learn new skills, showcase expertise, and advance their careers.