Predicting Water Supply - Another Machine Learning Competition
DrivenData is a website that hosts machine learning competitions, often involving some component of Earth Science or hydrology. In 2022, they hosted a competition sponsored by the US Bureau of Reclamation to predict snow quantity across the Western US. Although I didn’t have much experience with machine learning at the time, I decided to participate in the competition and was pretty surprised to rank 62 out of 1000 using a simple approach. See these three blog posts for more details: ...