# 3rd-Place Solution Overview

Hello everyone,
First off, thanks to the competition organizers for a clean, interesting, and leak-free dataset and congrats to the winners!
My solution was heavily dependent upon the use of neural networks for feature extraction.  I decided not to add any manual feature engineering since I thought it would be cool to try to win a competition with pure deep learning.  In retrospect, this wasn't one of my best ideas, and I probably could have benefited from some additional features.  Anyways, I managed to keep my codebase clean throughout the competition, and I've posted all the code on github in addition to a slightly more in-depth description of my approach.
Here's the link -
[https://github.com/sjvasquez/instacart-basket-prediction](https://github.com/sjvasquez/instacart-basket-prediction)