{"id":188,"date":"2013-07-03T06:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T06:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:15:03","slug":"a-brief-shining-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"A (brief?) shining moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0TL;DR: We&#8217;re kicking butts over at kaggle.com!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A colleague and I recently joined a kaggle.com competition in which, given a set of measurements of two variables, the point is to determine whether one is causally linked to the other. Conceptually, this is an interesting problem, and we&#8217;ve only just started hacking away at it, but we&#8217;ve already had some success. Our latest submission netted us 6th place!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/top10.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189\" alt=\"top10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/top10.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/top10.png 1599w, http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/top10-400x212.png 400w, http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/top10-1024x543.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/top10-500x265.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Now, time to step up our game and move up higher!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0TL;DR: We&#8217;re kicking butts over at kaggle.com! &nbsp; A colleague and I recently joined a kaggle.com competition in which, given a set of measurements of two variables, the point is to determine whether one is causally linked to the other. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moderncentral.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}