How I won my 18th and 19th bronze medals in Kaggle’s October 2022 tabular competition

I have been spending the last few days working on Kaggle competitions, endeavouring to improve upon my skill set.

I was quite taken aback when I saw Kaggle’s October 2022 tabular competition because it was very complex indeed. Even Kaggle stated that this competition question was their mostar difficult one so far.

I was not sure exactly what to do so I had to look at the code of other people to see if I could find any clues as to how best to solve this conundrum. Fortunately, someone made his code public, so I was able to look at it to endeavour to pick up some ideas as to the best way forward.

After having looked at two Jupyter Notebooks that people had made public, I used some of their techniques. I would like to add that both of the contestants used libraries that I do not normally use, so I will use this space to briefly discuss them.

Tqdm is a library in the Python programming language to create progress meters or progress bars. Progress meters are favourable because:-

1. One can see if the kernel is still working,
2. Progress bars are visually appealing to the eyes, and
3. It gives code execution time and estimated time for the code to complete, which…