Source: CourseraThese are my notes from the 5-weeks course on Coursera, as taught by a team of data scientists and Kaggle GrandMasters. ## Week 1 ##by Alexander Guschin, GM #5, Yandex, lecturer at MIPT Mikhail Trofimo, PhD student at CCAS Learning ObjectivesDescribe competition mechanicsCompare real life applications and competitionsSummarize reasons to participate in data science competitionsDesc