MachineHack successfully concluded its seventeenth installment of the weekend hackathon series this Monday. The Flower Class Recognition: Weekend Hackathon #17 hackathon provided the contestants with an opportunity to revisit the classification skills by classifying various classes of flowers into 8 different classes. The hackathon was greatly welcomed by data science enthusiasts with over 250 registrations and active participation from close to 125 practitioners.
Out of the 250 competitors, three topped our leaderboard. In this article, we will introduce you to the winners and describe the approach they took to solve the problem.
#1| Salim Shaikh
Although Salim had inclinations towards playing with numbers and getting insights from it, hence he did my masters in Statistics. Earlier he was not aware of Data Science as a field but after my placement at Vodafone Idea, he found his future roadmap. Having worked in Telecom and Banking domains, two of the largest sources of data he gets multiple opportunities to get his hands dirty and trying out various algorithms which also led me to participate in various hackathons organized by Kaggle, Analytics Vidhya, Zindi, HackerEarth and of course Machine Hack. This led to collaborative learning by reading the solution of other participants, team up with them, and exchange ideas, etc.
He would like to thank Machine Hack for giving us a chance to keep himself updated with the trend. “I had quite a decent experience on Machine Hack, every weekend we get some new problems covering all the aspects like tabular, text, vision, etc to brainstorm and learn. Also, the recent update of the interface was a great job done by the organizers. I look forward to more such hackathons in future” – Salim shared his opinion about MachineHack
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