https://github.com/buma/kaggle-gender-prediction

My submission to Kaggle gender prediction competition
https://github.com/buma/kaggle-gender-prediction

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My submission to Kaggle gender prediction competition

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/buma/kaggle-gender-prediction
• Owner: buma
• Created: 2013-04-08T10:06:24.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-30T18:32:33.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T22:50:28.481Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 19.5 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Kaggle - ICDAR2013 - Gender Prediction from Handwriting

I competed in another Kaggle competition called [Gender Prediction from handwriting](https://www.kaggle.com/c/icdar2013-gender-prediction-from-handwriting). Goal of the competition was to detect gender of a writer based on a writing style. 

Error metric is [LogLoss](https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/LogarithmicLoss).

## Models

For this competition I tried many different models, but didn't submit a result, because no model was better then benchmark.

I played with [Ramp](https://github.com/kvh/ramp), (please use my clone with Fixes for some things, for this code).

It is very nice to work with, model testing is much faster.

I also tried [Spearmint](https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint) for parameter optimization but got only numpy errors when I ran it.