Predict annual restaurant sales based on objective measurements Competition Link

1. Install R with brew

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install r

1. Install RStudio http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

conditional_random_forest.R was the script I used to submit my top two submissions

• Public Leaderboard: #492 of 2256
• Private Leaderboard: #47 of 2256

I was pretty surprised by the big jump, but many competitors had large drops because of overfitting https://www.kaggle.com/c/restaurant-revenue-prediction/forums/t/14026/lessons-learned