How I won my 27th bronze medal on a Kaggle playground competition

I woke up this morning to find that I had won a bronze medal in a Kaggle playground competition on my first attempt at submitting my predictions. The competition concerned predicting on the prices of gemstones, and my code review can be found here:- https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/use-machine-learning-to-predict-on-the-price-of-gems-705f723d850d

From what I have read, it is very difficult to win a competition using models from sklearn, as neural networks are the norm nowadays. In the near future I intend to begin learning neural networks, so watch this space: I may just get a silver or even a gold medal once I master that niche of data science!