New James Bond is a Data Scientist: Data Science Challenge sponsored by UK MI5 and MI6
Two Data Science challenges were launched by UK Government agencies, including MI5 and MI6. One challenge involves classifying vehicles from aerial images, and another analyzing crisis reports. Can you take part and be the next James Bond?
As a big fan of James Bond movies, I was intrigued when I was contacted by people working on
Data Science Challenge, sponsored by several
UK Government agencies, including Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), MI5 (UK Security Service), and MI6 (UK Secret Intelligence Service).
The competition aims to bring together the best minds in UK data science to solve real-world challenges and compete for cash prizes.
There are 2 challenges (competitions), each with a £20,000 prize.
The competitions started on April 3, 2017 and end on May 17, 2017.
Challenge 1: Image Analysis
The competition involves analyzing high-quality aerial imagery data to identify friendly and suspicious vehicle types. You, the data scientist, should to detect and classify vehicles in these images to allow assessing potential risks along key convoy routes.
The Challenge Guide provides details on the data specification, scoring metric and guidance for attempting the challenge.
The data for this challenge is high resolution aerial imagery. For the purpose of this challenge, a UK city has been used as the geographical location to represent part of a foreign nation.
Challenge 2: Multi-label classification
There are many news articles containing potentially relevant information. Using these, we need you to use historical reports to determine the topics for new articles so that they can be classified and prioritised. This will allow analysts to focus on only the most pertinent details of this developing crisis.
The data for this challenge has been acquired from a major international news provider, the Guardian. The training data represents the past historical record, and the test data represents new documents that require classification.
Both competitions are open to individuals over the age of 18.
For more details, read FAQs.
James Bond, as an agent working in foreign countries, would probably be a part of MI6.
Data Science Challenge, sponsored by several
UK Government agencies, including Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), MI5 (UK Security Service), and MI6 (UK Secret Intelligence Service).
The competition aims to bring together the best minds in UK data science to solve real-world challenges and compete for cash prizes.
There are 2 challenges (competitions), each with a £20,000 prize.
The competitions started on April 3, 2017 and end on May 17, 2017.
Challenge 1: Image Analysis
Safe Passage: Detecting and Classifying Images in Aerial Imagery
The competition involves analyzing high-quality aerial imagery data to identify friendly and suspicious vehicle types. You, the data scientist, should to detect and classify vehicles in these images to allow assessing potential risks along key convoy routes.
The Challenge Guide provides details on the data specification, scoring metric and guidance for attempting the challenge.
The data for this challenge is high resolution aerial imagery. For the purpose of this challenge, a UK city has been used as the geographical location to represent part of a foreign nation.
Challenge 2: Multi-label classification
Growing Instability: Classifying Crisis Reports
There are many news articles containing potentially relevant information. Using these, we need you to use historical reports to determine the topics for new articles so that they can be classified and prioritised. This will allow analysts to focus on only the most pertinent details of this developing crisis.
The data for this challenge has been acquired from a major international news provider, the Guardian. The training data represents the past historical record, and the test data represents new documents that require classification.
Both competitions are open to individuals over the age of 18.
For more details, read FAQs.
James Bond, as an agent working in foreign countries, would probably be a part of MI6.
