marquisvictor/Data-Science-Nigeria-2018-Notebooks-and-practice

This repo houses my notebooks on Exploratory data analysis as well as feature engineering and Modelling of a Supermarket dataset to predict sales provided by the Data science Nigeria body for the intercampus machine learning competition july to september 2018 # Data-Science-Nigeria-2018-Notebooks-and-practice This repo houses my notebooks on Exploratory data analysis as well as feature engineering and Modelling of a Supermarket dataset to predict sales. the dataset provided by the Data science Nigeria body for the intercampus machine learning competition, july to september 2018. i didnt own a laptop the the whole of 2018, i took the compulsory qualifying edX courses borrowing people's laptops. When the main intercampus machine learning competition came. i was so stranded plus it clashed with my exams. it then became so difficult because i didn't own a laptop. i didnt give up though. i managed to do the little i could. i ended up at 109th position out of 140 participants i couldn't do much. i was also protecting my First class cgpa which i am grateful i had. Few days after my uncle sent me this laptop all the way from germany in January of 2019, i searched for the supermarket datasets again, because i wasnt satisfied with what i did earlier at the intercampus ML competition and played with it again to my satisfaction. this time without the fear of the owner of the laptop coming to tell me he/she needs it back as it had always happened whilst i was preparing for the competition. which is why i created this repo. to store this memory. One thing for sure, I never let the fire die.. even when i didnt have the resouces and the odds were'nt in my favour. i really cried hard and was so heartbroken when i discovered i wasn't going to make it to the 2018 bootcamp. because i didn't own a laptop to compete with other fellow competitors. thank God for my family that consoled me and told me to channel that pain and hurt to making myself some1 that would matter in the AI domain someday. something i expect you to note from this little experience is this. SHIT DON'T LAST! No matter you're passing through. just keep holding on there, it would surely get better. i forgot to add, i am still in my 400 level as at the time of creating …