Data Mining Competitions - Current

• KDD Cup 2008, focuses on the early detection of breast cancer from X-ray images of the breast.
  Start: Apr 3, 2008. Results due: July 1, 2008.
• Fifth Annual University of California San Diego (UCSD) Data Mining Contest, consisting of two classification tasks based on data from a physics experiment.
  Start: Mar 25, 2008. Final Submissions Due: June 15, 2008.
• First INFORMS Data Mining Competition: The Antibiotic Protocol Case.
  Results due Sep 1, 2008.
• American Medical Information Association (AMIA) contest, based on National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), open to students. Results due Sep 15, 2008.
• Netflix $1 million prize for improving accuracy of movie recommendations.
  Start: Oct 2006.

Data Mining Competitions - Recently completed

• KDD Cup 2007, predicting aspects of movie rating behavior (related to Netflix Cup).
• PAKDD-2007 competition, focusing on Cross-Selling.
• Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge, Does adding domain/prior knowledge really help or can we use as well "dumb" features and a good learning algorithm?
• NN3: 2006-2007 Forecasting competition for Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence Methods, forecasting time series.