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.
Read on or watch the video below to explore more details. Once you’re ready to start competing, click on the "Join Competition button to create an account and gain access to the competition data. Then check out Alexis Cook’s Titanic Tutorial that walks you through step by step how to make your first submission!
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).
Recommended Tutorial
We highly recommend Alexis Cook’s Titanic Tutorial that walks you through making your very first submission step by step.
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.
Kaggle Lingo Video
You may run into unfamiliar lingo as you dig into the Kaggle discussion forums and public notebooks. Check out Dr. Rachael Tatman’s video on Kaggle Lingo to get up to speed!
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.
Submission File Format:
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.
The file should have exactly 2 columns:
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!
You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot submit from multiple accounts.
Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted. It's okay to share code if made available to all participants on the forums.
Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the team leader. In order to merge, the combined team must have a total submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the merge date. The maximum allowed is the number of submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running.
There is no maximum team size.
You may submit a maximum of 10 entries per day.
You may select up to 5 final submissions for judging.
Start Date: 9/28/2012 9:13 PM UTC
Merger Deadline: None
Entry Deadline: None
End Date: None
This is a fun competition aimed at helping you get started with machine learning. While the Titanic dataset is publicly available on the internet, looking up the answers defeats the entire purpose. So seriously, don't do that.
It is your job to predict if a passenger survived the sinking of the Titanic or not.
For each in the test set, you must predict a 0 or 1 value for the variable.
Your score is the percentage of passengers you correctly predict. This is known as accuracy.
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.
The file should have exactly 2 columns:
PassengerId,Survived
892,0
893,1
894,0
Etc.
You can download an example submission file (gender_submission.csv) on the Data page.
