BNP Paribas Cardif Claims Management

Overview

Kaggle competition https://www.kaggle.com/c/bnp-paribas-cardif-claims-management

The repo wiki describes the high-level approach taken in this Kaggle competion.

Results

• First successful use of model stacking.
• Placed 133 (JMT5802) out of 2,926 teams. Top 5% finisher.

System Requirements

• In addition to R, the Anaconda Python distribution, which includes pandas and sci-kit learn, is required. For this work Python 2.7 was used.

Directory Overview

• src - contains R and Python source code to build and test models and to create Kaggle submissions
• eda - contains code for exploratory data analysis and extract data required for creating features.
• munge - code to extract raw data for various purposes

To run the code in this repo requires creating the data sub-directory and downloading the Kaggle training and test data sets.