"This is the legendary Titanic ML competition – the best, first challenge for you to dive into ML competitions and familiarize yourself with how the Kaggle platform works. The competition is simple: use machine learning to create a model that predicts which passengers survived the Titanic shipwreck."

source: https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic/overview

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most infamous shipwrecks in history.

On April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage, the widely considered “unsinkable” RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough lifeboats for everyone onboard, resulting in the death of 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew.

While there was some element of luck involved in surviving, it seems some groups of people were more likely to survive than others.

In this challenge, we ask you to build a predictive model that answers the question: “what sorts of people were more likely to survive?” using passenger data (ie name, age, gender, socio-economic class, etc).

1. Join the Competition

Read about the challenge description, accept the Competition Rules and gain access to the competition dataset.

2. Get to Work

Download the data, build models on it locally or on Kaggle Kernels (our no-setup, customizable Jupyter Notebooks environment with free GPUs) and generate a prediction file.

3. Make a Submission

Upload your prediction as a submission on Kaggle and receive an accuracy score.

4. Check the Leaderboard

See how your model ranks against other Kagglers on our leaderboard.

5. Improve Your Score

Check out the discussion forum to find lots of tutorials and insights from other competitors.

In this competition, you’ll gain access to two similar datasets that include passenger information like name, age, gender, socio-economic class, etc. One dataset is titled train.csv and the other is titled test.csv.

Train.csv will contain the details of a subset of the passengers on board (891 to be exact) and importantly, will reveal whether they survived or not, also known as the “ground truth”.

The test.csv dataset contains similar information but does not disclose the “ground truth” for each passenger. It’s your job to predict these outcomes.

Using the patterns you find in the train.csv data, predict whether the other 418 passengers on board (found in test.csv) survived.

Check out the “Data” tab to explore the datasets even further. Once you feel you’ve created a competitive model, submit it to Kaggle to see where your model stands on our leaderboard against other Kagglers.

Once you’re ready to make a submission and get on the leaderboard:

1. Click on the “Submit Predictions” button

2. Upload a CSV file in the submission file format. You’re able to submit 10 submissions a day.

You should submit a csv file with exactly 418 entries plus a header row. Your submission will show an error if you have extra columns (beyond PassengerId and Survived) or rows.

PassengerId (sorted in any order) Survived (contains your binary predictions: 1 for survived, 0 for deceased) Got it! I’m ready to get started. Where do I get help if I need it? For Competition Help: Titanic Discussion Forum Technical Help: Kaggle Contact Us Page

Kaggle doesn’t have a dedicated support team so you’ll typically find that you receive a response more quickly by asking your question in the appropriate forum. The forums are full of useful information on the data, metric, and different approaches. We encourage you to use the forums often. If you share your knowledge, you'll find that others will share a lot in turn!

As we mentioned before, Kaggle Notebooks is our no-setup, customizable, Jupyter Notebooks environment with free GPUs and a huge repository of community published data & code.

In every competition, you’ll find many Kernels publically shared with incredible insights. It’s an invaluable resource worth becoming familiar with. Check out this competition’s Kernel’s here.

🏃‍♀Ready to Compete? Join the Competition Here!