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In connection with Big Data Week, there is a global data science hackathon that will simultaneously take place in various locations around the world (including New York City, London, Sydney, and San Francisco).
The aim of the hackathon is to promote data science and show the world what is possible today combining data science with open source, Hadoop, machine learning, and data mining tools.
Data scientists, data geeks, and hackers will self organize around teams of 3-5 members. Contestants will be presented with a 'big data' set (hosted on the Kaggle platform). In order to win prizes, the teams will have to use data science tools and develop an analytical model that will solve a specific data science problem specified by the judging tech panel. The contestants will have to report their achievements at specific milestones, and a leader board will be published online at each milestone.
EMC and Data Science London have announced prizes.
The competition and the prizes will be managed by the Kaggle platform.
The Hackathon will run during 24 hours. The hackathon will start at 1pm London Apr 28 and will end at 1pm London Apr 29. All other Data Science Hackathons around the world will start & end at the same time than London venue.
For more information and to participate, see