Kaggle is a Data Science community where thousands of Data Scientists compete to solve complex data problems.

In this article we are going to see how to go through a Kaggle competition step by step.

The contest explored here is the San Francisco Crime Classification contest. The goal is to classify a crime occurrence knowing the time and place it happened.

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In this tutorial, we ‘ll first take a look at the Youtube API to retrieve comments data about the channel as well as basic information about the likes count and view count of the videos. Then, we will use Nltk to see most frequently used words in the comments and plot some sentiment graphs.

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Some time ago I discovered a very nice tool to find nearby events and things to do around. It’s called citypulse.io and I found it very useful.

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When I travel, I always want to get the most of the city I’m visiting. One way is to talk to local people and get advices about which spots you shouldn’t miss. But I wish I could have the point of view of the past visitors… Which places did they enjoy the most ?  Where is the best spot to watch the sunset ?  The best selfies you can get ? I also want to have a look of some beaches before choosing one or getting an idea about what some areas looks like… The idea here is to ask Instagram about the nearby popular spots.

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