Past Analytics, Data Mining Competitions

2011 Analytics and Data Mining Competitions

2010 Analytics and Data Mining Competitions

• Second Pascal Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text classification,
  Start: Jan 15, 2011 ; End of testing: March 31, 2011
• ISMIS 2011 Contest: Music Information Retrieval.
  Start: Jan 10, 2011; End: Mar 21, 2011.
• Seventh Annual UCSD Data Mining Contest, with two classification tasks based on data from an e-commerce website.
• INFORMS 2010 Data Mining Contest, develop a model that predicts stock price movements at five minute intervals.
• IEEE ICDM 2010 Contest,

  The task is to predict city traffic based on measurements from Automatic Traffic Recorders or real-time notifications from in-car GPS navigators. Best solutions will be awarded with prizes worth 5,000 USD in total.

• KDD Cup 2010, Educational Data Mining.

  predict student performance on mathematical problems from logs of student interaction with Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

• IEEE VAST 2010 Challenge, (Visual Analytics Science and Technology). Three mini challenges on 1) text documents; 2) medical record data and death records; 3) genetic sequences.
• ECML PKDD 2010 Discovery Challenge, on Web Content Quality.
• Active Learning Challenge 2010, addresses machine learning problems in which labeling data is expensive, but large amounts of unlabeled data are available at low cost. Prizes: 3200 USD and travel awards, workshops, proceedings, lots of fun!

2009 Analytics Data Mining Competitions

• 2009/10 Time Series Forecasting Grand Competition for Computational Intelligence, Forecast one, two or more datasets of a selection of 6 datasets (each containing 11 time series) on transportation data as accurately as possible, using methods from computational intelligence and applying a consistent methodology.
• OMOP Cup, sponsored by Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership. Goal is to develop methods that correctly identify true drug-event associations while minimizing false positive findings.
• 2009 INFORMS Data Mining Contest, focusing on predictive problems for health care quality.
• Large Scale Hierarchical Text classification (LSHTC).
• KDD Cup 2009, sponsored by Orange, fast scoring on large database to predict customer behaviour.
• PAKDD 2009 Data Mining Competition.
  Task: Credit Risk Assessment on a Private Label Credit Card Application