Kaggle Days is a global offline event series for Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineerings and Kagglers. In December 2019 it was Kaggle Days Tokyo were held for the first time in Japan and Machine Learning Tokyo organized a Deep Learning workshop for the event attendees. Dimitris Katsios showed how to tackle the APTOS 2019 Blindness Detection Kaggle Competition, detecting diabetic retinopathy to stop blindness.

The 2-hour workshop was geared towards Kaggle beginners and went through dataframes, data generators, model training and evaluations. Find the notebook with complete code example here.

If you’re interested in more about Kaggle Days Tokyo, Francisco Soares summarized workshops, tutorials and talks in his notes.