- A third of Kaggle competitors use R - Apr 21, 2011.
a third of all Kaggle competitors report using R, but 50% of competition winners used R. Revolution Analytics announced that the big-data capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise available for use in Kaggle competitions, free of charge.
- ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2011: VideoLectures.Net recommender system - Apr 18, 2011.
The challenge first task simulates new-user and new-item recommendation (cold-start mode); the second task simulates (normal mode) clickstream based recommendation. The side contest is for for the best computational workflow, to be chosen by an expert panel.
- Medical NLP challenge: co-reference resolution and sentiment classification - Apr 18, 2011.
i2b2 and the VA, and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will hold a competition with two tracks, an objective and subjective analysis.
- Forecasting World Events Competition - Apr 18, 2011.
looking for people interested in global security and politics, business and economics, public health, science and technology, to participate in a unique research study sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
- Medical NLP challenge: co-reference resolution and sentiment classification - Apr 18, 2011.
i2b2 and the VA, and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will hold a competition with two tracks, an objective and subjective analysis.
- The 12th DATA-MINING-CUP is launched with two tasks - Apr 15, 2011.
In addition to the classic data mining exercise, the second task covers a real-time data mining problem that can be solved by developing an adaptive algorithm.
- Starting with R on Heritage Health Prize - Apr 14, 2011.
This blog posts looks at $3M Heritage Health Prize competition and how to get started using the R platform.
- ICDM 2011 Data Mining Contest proposals due Apr 29 - Apr 12, 2011.
The Data Mining Contest is an integral part of the ICDM conference and provides an opportunity for teams of scientists and domain experts to compete in order to develop data mining techniques for real-world applications.
- The IEEE VAST Challenge Starts - Apr 11, 2011.
The 3 challenges are: Geospatial: Characterization of an Epidemic Spread; Cybersecurity: Awareness in Computer Networks; Text Analytics: Investigation into Criminal Activity
- Heritage Health Prize launched - Apr 5, 2011.
The HHP is a $3 million competition to predict who will go to hospital and for how long. The data will be released in three waves. The Apr 4 launch allows people to register and download the first instalment, which includes enough data for people to start trying out models.
