Analytics, Data Mining Competitions

Notable Current Competitions

• Heritage Health Data Analysis Prize ($3M), can administrative health care data be used to accurately predict which patients will be admitted to the hospital?
  End: Apr 4, 2013.
• KDD Cup 2012, focus on User Modeling based on Microblog Data and Search Click Data.
  End: Jun 1, 2012.

Analytics, Data Mining Competition Platforms

• Kaggle, platform for data prediction competitions
• Crowdanalytix
• Innocentive, mainly focusing on life science
• TunedIT, education, research and industrial contests.