Tag: Competition (106)

• SQream Announces Massive Data Revolution Video Challenge - Dec 1, 2020.
  
  Data professionals are invited to share their massive data challenges from their own unique perspectives. Learn more about the Massive Data Revolution Video Challenge, get a $50 Amazon gift card, and be sure to submit your entry by December 16th.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, SQream, Video

• DOE SMART Visualization Platform 1.5M Prize Challenge - Oct 16, 2020.
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) will award up to $1.5 million to winning innovators in a prize challenge to support FE’s SMART initiative. Registration deadline to participate in the challenge is 11:59 p.m. EDT Friday, Jan 22, 2021.

  Tags: Competition, Data Visualization, Machine Learning

• International alternatives to Kaggle for Data Science / Machine Learning competitions - Sep 29, 2020.
  
  While Kaggle might be the most well-known, go-to data science competition platform to test your skills at model building and performance, additional regional platforms are available around the world that offer even more opportunities to learn... and win.

  Tags: Competition, Data Science, Kaggle, Machine Learning

• Top KDnuggets tweets, Sep 9-15: Will You Enroll At #Google University For $49/Month? Here Are International Alternatives to @Kaggle - Sep 16, 2020.
  
  Will You Enroll At #Google University For $49/Month? On @Kaggle some prizes are only for Americans - here are international alternatives; Advanced #NumPy for #DataScience; Free From MIT: Intro to Computer Science and Programming in Python

  Tags: Competition, Google, Kaggle, Online Education, Top tweets

• Lessons From My First Kaggle Competition - Sep 14, 2020.
  
  How I chose my first Kaggle competition to enter and what I learned from doing it.

  Tags: Competition, Data Science, Kaggle

• NIST $240K Challenge: Saving Lives, One Pixel at a Time - Sep 8, 2020.
  
  Video analytics that could save lives and property are just out of reach. A new prize challenge, Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety, is designed to help develop a new line of research that will bring such tools closer to reality.

  Tags: Competition, Computer Vision, NIST, Safety

• Show off your Data Science skills with Kaggle Kernels - Jun 14, 2019.
  
  Kaggle is not just about data science competitions. They also have a platform called Kaggle Kernels, using which you can build a stellar data science portfolio.

  Tags: Advice, Competition, Data Science, Data Science Skills, Kaggle

• What my first Silver Medal taught me about Text Classification and Kaggle in general? - May 13, 2019.
  
  A first-hand account of ideas tried by a competitor at the recent kaggle competition 'Quora Insincere questions classification', with a brief summary of some of the other winning solutions.

  Tags: Advice, Competition, Cross-validation, Kaggle, Python, Text Classification

• What is missing when AI makes a decision? - Apr 5, 2019.
  
  We explain the need for caution when it comes to using AI in real-life situations and outline the importance of asking the right question to deliver the right impact.

  Tags: AI, Competition, Gartner, Risks

• My secret sauce to be in top 2% of a Kaggle competition - Nov 26, 2018.
  
  A collection of top tips on ways to explore features and build better machine learning models, including feature engineering, identifying noisy features, leakage detection, model monitoring, and more.

  Tags: Competition, Data Science, Kaggle

• McKinsey Datathon: The City Cup
  17 November, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Zurich. Apply Now - Oct 19, 2018.
  
  While solving the challenge, you will gain insights into the types of problems that McKinsey Data Scientists solve daily to help their clients. Top prize is 5K Euro + conference attendance of your choice.

  Tags: Amsterdam, Competition, Hackathon, McKinsey, Stockholm, Zurich

• AnalyticsX Hackathon: Seize the data! - Aug 17, 2018.
  
  Join us for the AnalyticsX Hackathon, Sep 16-17 in San Diego, where the data is hot and the discoveries are cool. Reserve your seat now!

  Tags: CA, Competition, Hackathon, San Diego, SAS

• Solve epileptic seizure prediction! Participate at epilepsyecosystem.org - Aug 14, 2018.
  
  Around twenty million people worldwide suffer from drug-resistant epilepsy and the unpredictability of seizures is one of the major factors affecting the quality of life of people with epilepsy.

  Tags: Competition, Epilepsy, Healthcare, Prediction

• ZS Associates: Data Science Associate Consultant - Jun 18, 2018.
  
  Seeking candidates to design, develop and execute analytic techniques on large, complex, structured and unstructured data sets (including big data) to help clients make better fact-based decisions.

  Tags: Chicago, Competition, Consultant, Data Science, IL, ZS Associates

• To Kaggle Or Not - May 2, 2018.
  
  Kaggle is the most well known competition platform for predictive modeling and analytics. This article looks into the different aspects of Kaggle and the benefits it can bring to data scientists.

  Tags: Advice, Competition, Data Science, Kaggle

• 2018 IEEE Big Data Cup - Feb 16, 2018.
  
  The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. We invite industrial, government, and academic organizations to submit proposals to organize a Data Challenge for the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data.

  Tags: Big Data, Challenge, Competition, IEEE

• Texata 2017 Big Data World Championships – free entry for KDnuggets readers - Sep 15, 2017.
  
  TEXATA is the annual Big Data Analytics World Championships - business case-study competition with two online qualification rounds (4 hours each) and Top 12 Live World Finals held in Austin. Use TEXATA37856C for free entry for KDnuggets readers.

  Tags: Austin, Big Data Analytics, Competition, Data Science, TEXATA

• KDD Cup 2018 Call for Proposals - Aug 30, 2017.
  
  We are looking for strong proposals that have a novel and motivated goal, a broad business impact, a rigid and fair setup, a challenging yet manageable task, and domain accessibility to the general public.

  Tags: Competition, KDD Cup, KDD-2018, London, UK

• TPOT Automated Machine Learning Competition: Can AutoML beat humans on Kaggle? - Jun 5, 2017.
  
  Over the next couple months, we’re going to challenge you to apply TPOT to any data science problem you find interesting on Kaggle. If your entry ranks in the top 25% of the leaderboard on a Kaggle problem, we want to see how TPOT helped you accomplish that.

  Tags: Automated Data Science, Automated Machine Learning, Competition, Machine Learning

• New James Bond is a Data Scientist: Data Science Challenge sponsored by UK MI5 and MI6 - Apr 5, 2017.
  
  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?

  Tags: Competition, Image Recognition, Text Classification, UK

• Data Science Game, Machine learning competition for students - Mar 14, 2017.
  
  Improve your skills and have fun with other talented students from all around the world. Reg by April 9, online qualification ends May 31, and final phase in Paris, Fall 2017.

  Tags: Competition, Data Science, France, Machine Learning, Paris, Student Competition

• Interview: UN/WDC “Data For Climate Action” Challenge – What Data Scientists Need to Know - Mar 13, 2017.
  
  We ask UN Global Pulse Director about the 'Data For Climate Action' Challenge, the best sources of climate data, examples of using data for climate mitigation and climate adaptation, and resources for convincing climate change skeptics.

  Tags: Climate Change, Competition, Mobility, Politics, United Nations

• “Data For Climate Action” Challenge – call for research proposals - Mar 13, 2017.
  
  The challenge is to harness data science and big data from the private sector to fight climate change. Data scientists, researchers, and innovators - submit proposals at DataForClimateAction.org by 10 April 2017.

  Tags: Climate Change, Cloud Computing, Competition, United Nations

• Data Science vs Fake News Contest - Feb 27, 2017.
  
  Submit a story that clearly exposes a false claim in the news, using data and visualization. This contest is sponsored by KDnuggets, Data For Democracy, and data.world. Submissions due March 10, 2017.

  Tags: Competition, Data Visualization, Data.world, Donald Trump, Fake News, Politics

• Spark Streaming Innovation Contest - Feb 15, 2017.
  
  Build a Spark application on StreamAnalytix, a real-time streaming analytics platform and win $10K. Register by March 31, 2017.

  Tags: Apache Spark, Competition, Impetus, Streaming Analytics

• How to Rank 10% in Your First Kaggle Competition - Nov 9, 2016.
  
  This post presents a pathway to achieving success in Kaggle competitions as a beginner. The path generalizes beyond competitions, however. Read on for insight into succeeding while approaching any data science project.

  Pages: 1 2 3 4

  Tags: Beginners, Competition, Data Science, Kaggle, Machine Learning, Python

• Data Science + Criminal Justice - Oct 17, 2016.
  
  The nation needs brilliant, creative minds to lead the next generation of crime forecasting. Enter the competition sponsored by National Institute of Justice to help improve policing and public safety with data science. $1.2 Million will be awarded.

  Tags: Competition, Crime, Data Science, Forecasting, Police, Safety

• Automated Data Science & Machine Learning: An Interview with the Auto-sklearn Team - Oct 4, 2016.
  
  This is an interview with the authors of the recent winning KDnuggets Automated Data Science and Machine Learning blog contest entry, which provided an overview of the Auto-sklearn project. Learn more about the authors, the project, and automated data science.

  Tags: Automated, Automated Data Science, Automated Machine Learning, Competition, Machine Learning, scikit-learn

• NIJ Crime Forecasting Challenge – help improve policing and public safety with data science! - Sep 22, 2016.
  
  The nation needs brilliant, creative minds to lead the next generation of crime forecasting. Enter the competition sponsored by National Institute of Justice to help improve policing and public safety with data science. $1.2 Million will be awarded.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, Crime, Forecasting, Police, Safety

• Microsoft Machine Learning Competition – Improve Women Health - Sep 16, 2016.
  
  Enter Microsoft Women Health Risk Assessment competition, develop machine learning solutions to accurately categorize young women for their particular health risk. Enter now - submissions due Sep 30.

  Tags: Competition, Health, Microsoft, Women

• MICCAI 2016 Cancer Radiomics Challenge - Aug 9, 2016.
  
  Details on the ongoing MICCAI 2016 Cancer Radiomics Challenge, organized by University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center radiation oncology team, hosted on Kaggle, and being held until September 12th.

  Tags: Competition, Kaggle, Medical, University of Texas

• Contest Winner: Winning the AutoML Challenge with Auto-sklearn - Aug 5, 2016.
  
  This post is the first place prize recipient in the recent KDnuggets blog contest. Auto-sklearn is an open-source Python tool that automatically determines effective machine learning pipelines for classification and regression datasets. It is built around the successful scikit-learn library and won the recent AutoML challenge.

  Tags: Automated, Automated Data Science, Automated Machine Learning, Competition, Hyperparameter, scikit-learn, Weka

• Barley, Hops, and Bayes: Predicting The World Beer Cup - Jul 26, 2016.
  
  This post covers predicting award counts by the United States in an international beer competition. Exploratory data analysis and Bayes methods are also supported.

  Tags: Bayesian, Beer, Competition, Data Visualization, Prediction, Python

• TalkingData Data Science Competition: understand mobile users - Jul 12, 2016.
  
  Unique opportunity to solve complex real world big data challenges for the China mobile market - predict users demographic characteristics based on their app usage, geolocation, and mobile device properties.

  Tags: China, Competition, Kaggle, Mobile, TalkingData, Turi

• KDnuggets Blog Contest: Automated Data Science and Machine Learning - Jun 21, 2016.
  
  KDnuggets Contest for interesting blogs about Automated Data Science and Machine Learning is over - read the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st place winners.

  Tags: Automated, Automated Data Science, Competition, Data Science

• PPMI Data Challenge 2016 – Help Solve Parkinsons Disease - Jun 13, 2016.
  
  Help answer 2 key questions about Parkinson's disease and gather new insights into PD diagnosis and progression. MJFF and GE Healthcare are offering $50,000 in total prizes.

  Tags: Competition, Healthcare, MJFF

• Black Box Challenge Machine Learning Competition - Apr 21, 2016.
  
  Take part in an unusual machine learning competition — program an agent (in Python) that can play a game with unknown rules.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, Machine Learning, Python

• Watson Developer Challenge: build conversational apps using Watson language APIs - Mar 18, 2016.
  
  Watson Developer Challenge is an online hackathon to build conversational apps using Watson new language service APIs for NLP, document conversion, and speech and machine learning algorithms. Coders have till Apr 15 to build software that lets users interact with Watson through a natural conversational interface.

  Tags: API, Cognitive Computing, Competition, Hackathon, IBM Watson, Natural Language Processing

• The Data Science Game – Student Competition - Mar 17, 2016.
  
  The Data Science Game returns this year, with university students competing for dominance. Details for this iteration and further information is provided here.

  Tags: Competition, Data Science, France, Kaggle, Paris, Student Competition

• $5 Million for Helping Humanity through Artificial Intelligence - Feb 26, 2016.
  
  IBM Watson A.I. XPRIZE contest will reward $5 million in prize money to the best applications of AI in solving world’s greatest challenges.

  Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Competition, IBM Watson, Social Good, TED

• Anthony Goldbloom gives you the Secret to winning Kaggle competitions - Jan 20, 2016.
  
  Kaggle CEO shares insights on best approaches to win Kaggle competitions, along with a brief explanation of how Kaggle competitions work.

  Tags: Anthony Goldbloom, Competition, Deep Learning, Feature Engineering, Kaggle, Neural Networks, Success

• Lessons from 2 Million Machine Learning Models on Kaggle - Dec 24, 2015.
  
  Lessons from Kaggle competitions, including why XG Boosting is the top method for structured problems, Neural Networks and deep learning dominate unstructured problems (visuals, text, sound), and 2 types of problems for which Kaggle is suitable.

  Tags: Anthony Goldbloom, Boosting, Competition, Feature Engineering, Kaggle

• PAKDD 2016 Data Science Contest: Sarcasm detection on Reddit comments - Dec 17, 2015.
  
  The contest task is to design an effective algorithm for sarcasm detection in the domain of opinion mining. Submissions due Feb 15, 2016.

  Tags: Competition, PAKDD, Reddit, Sentiment Analysis, Text Mining

• Cartoon: 2nd place in a Data Science contest - Dec 11, 2015.
  
  New KDnuggets Cartoon looks at the recent progress of machine learning algorithms reaching and exceeding human performance levels and what will they achieve next...

  Tags: Cartoon, Coffee, Competition, Deep Learning

• Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Competition - Oct 13, 2015.
  
  SemEval is back and so is the Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) competition, which has gone multilingual for ABSA16. Get all of the details below.

  Tags: Competition, Sentiment Analysis

• Knight News Challenge on Data opens for ideas, apply by Sep 30 - Sep 13, 2015.
  
  The Knight News Challenge on Data open for ideas - apply by Sep 30, propose projects that use data for good to inform and empower people. Winners will receive a share of $3M.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, Knight News, Social Good

• The Present and the Future of the KDD Cup Competition - Aug 31, 2015.
  
  KDD cup is the first and among most prestigious competitions in data science, Among key takeaways from KDD Cup 2015: XGBoost – Gradient Boosted Decision Trees package works wonders in data classification, feature engineering is the king, and team work is crucial.

  Pages: 1 2

  Tags: ACM, Competition, Gradient Boosting, KDD, KDD Cup, KDD-2015

• KDnuggets™ News 15:n28, Aug 26: How long at your Analytics job? Paradoxes of Data Science; Big Data Security - Aug 26, 2015.
  
  New Poll: How long did you stay at your analytics/data science job? Paradoxes of Data Science; HeroX Cognitive Computing Challenge; Information Management 10 IT Security Books for Big Data Scientists.

  Tags: Books, Certificate, Competition, Information Management, Machine Learning, Security

• CIKM Machine Learning Competition 2015 - Jul 27, 2015.
  
  CIKM 2015 competition is focused on Australian Football league (AFL), and predicting outcomes of future AFL matches using machine learning techniques based on historical data on teams, players and their performances.

  Tags: Australia, Competition, Football, Sports

• CHEMDNER competition: Chemical and drug name recognition task in patents - Jul 18, 2015.
  
  Want to test your data science skills? Get ready for the next text mining and information retrieval challenge by CHEMDNER.

  Tags: CHEMDNER, Cheminformatics, Competition, Information Retrieval, Patents, Text Mining

• Interview: Ali Vanderveld, Groupon on How Data Science is Changing the Global E-commerce Marketplace - Jul 17, 2015.
  
  We discuss the tools used for data science, competitive landscape, journey from astrophysics to data science, advice, skills sought in data scientists, and more.

  Tags: Advice, Ali Vanderveld, Career, Competition, Data Science, Ecommerce, Groupon, Interview, Marketplace, Mobile

• Global Data Competition focused on Climate Change - Jul 12, 2015.
  
  This inaugural global data competition is focused on Climate Change and split into 22 regions around the world.

  Tags: Climate Change, Competition

• Using Ensembles in Kaggle Data Science Competitions- Part 3 - Jun 27, 2015.
  
  Earlier, we showed how to create stacked ensembles with stacked generalization and out-of-fold predictions. Now we'll learn how to implement various stacking techniques.

  Tags: Competition, Data blending, Kaggle, Logistic Regression, Predictive Models

• Using Ensembles in Kaggle Data Science Competitions – Part 2 - Jun 26, 2015.
  
  Aspiring to be a Top Kaggler? Learn more methods like Stacking & Blending. In the previous post we discussed about ensembling models by ways of weighing, averaging and ranks. There is much more to explore in Part-2!

  Tags: Competition, Data blending, Data Science, Kaggle, Netflix

• Using Ensembles in Kaggle Data Science Competitions – Part 1 - Jun 25, 2015.
  
  How to win Machine Learning Competitions? Gain an edge over the competition by learning Model Ensembling. Take a look at Henk van Veen's insights about how to get improved results!

  Pages: 1 2

  Tags: Competition, Correlation, Data Science, Kaggle, Machine Learning, Use Cases

• Interview: Ranjan Sinha, eBay on Winner Insights from International Sorting Competitions - Jun 10, 2015.
  
  We discuss advancements in the field of Personalization, lessons from winning sorting competitions, Data Science trends, career advice, and more.

  Tags: Advice, Career, Competition, eBay, Insights, Interview, Personalization, Ranjan Sinha, Recommendation, Trends

• How to Lead a Data Science Contest without Reading the Data - May 17, 2015.
  
  We examine a “wacky” boosting method that lets you climb the public leaderboard without even looking at the data . But there is a catch, so read on before trying to win Kaggle competitions with this approach.

  Tags: Accuracy, Benchmark, Competition, Kaggle, Model Performance

• DrivenData Competition: Keeping Boston Fresh - May 1, 2015.
  
  DrivenData civic innovation competition, "Keeping it Fresh," aims to help cities capitalize on their data. The task is to predict Boston restaurant violations from social media.

  Tags: Boston, Competition, DrivenData, Yelp

• Kaggle Competition (Facebook recruiting): Human or Robot? - Apr 28, 2015.
  
  Facebook and Kaggle are launching an Engineering competition for 2015 - leaders will earn an opportunity to interview for a software engineer at Facebook, working on world class Machine Learning problems. In this competition, you'll be chasing down robots for an online auction site.

  Tags: Bots, Competition, Facebook, Humans vs Machines, Kaggle, Software Engineer

• Interview: Dave McCrory, Basho on Why Data Gravity Cannot be Ignored in Architecture Design - Mar 17, 2015.
  
  We discuss data gravity and its implications, Riak Enterprise 2.0, Riak CS 1.5, competitive landscape, challenges and more.

  Tags: Basho, Challenges, Competition, Dave McCrory, Distributed Systems, Interview

• 10 Steps to Success in Kaggle Data Science Competitions - Mar 11, 2015.
  
  The author, ranked in top 10 in five Kaggle competitions, shares his 10 steps for success. These also apply to any well-defined predictive analytics or modeling problem with a closed dataset.

  Pages: 1 2 3

  Tags: Competition, Hackathon, Kaggle, Overfitting, Yanir Seroussi

• Interview: Lei Shi, ChinaHR.com on Unraveling Insights from Unstructured Data - Mar 7, 2015.
  
  We discuss challenges in leveraging Big Data, important attributes while profiling employers and job seekers, competitive landscape, desired skills in data scientists and more.

  Tags: Competition, Decision Making, Hiring, Interview, Jobs, Machine Learning, Trends

• GISCUP: GIS-focused algorithm competition at ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015 - Mar 6, 2015.
  
  Route planner in real-time one of the most popular web GIS services in use today, and 2015 contest is to find shortest path under polygonal obstacles.

  Tags: ACM, Competition, GIS, SIGSPATIAL

• Failing Optimally – Data Science’s Measurement Problem - Mar 4, 2015.
  
  Data science has a measurement problem. Simple metrics may not address complex situations. But complex metrics present myriad problems.

  Tags: Accuracy, Competition, Model Performance, Zachary Lipton

• IEEE ICDM 2015 Call for Data Mining Contest/Competition Proposals, due Mar 29 - Feb 28, 2015.
  
  We invite proposals for the ICDM 2015 Data Mining Contest, which is an integral part of the IEEE ICDM conference and provides an opportunity for teams of scientists and domain experts to compete in order to develop data mining techniques for real-world applications.

  Tags: Atlantic City, Competition, Data Mining, ICDM, IEEE, NJ

• TEDx RheinMain Datanauts Competition - Feb 17, 2015.
  
  Send your project idea to TEDx RheinMain “Datanauts” Competition. It should fit to one of the following categories: mobility, environment, culture, common Good.

  Tags: Competition, Germany, TED

• Interview: M.C. Srivas, CTO, MapR on Data Agility – The Next Frontier of Big Data - Feb 12, 2015.
  
  We discuss the competitive differentiation of MapR, challenges in consumerizing Big Data, trends, strategy recommendations, desired skills and more.

  Tags: Big Data, Business Strategy, Challenges, Competition, Education, Interview, M. C. Srivas, MapR, Trends

• Interview: Phani Nagarjuna, Nuevora on Right Data and Business Analytics Roadmap - Feb 10, 2015.
  
  We discuss the journey of Business Analytics, definition of Right Data, competitive differentiation of Nuevora, challenges in the large-scale consumerization of analytics, and more.

  Tags: Business Analytics, Competition, Data Science Skills, Marketing, Nuevora, Phani Nagarjuna, Predictive Analytics

• BioEye 2015 – Competition on Biometrics via Eye Movements - Jan 30, 2015.
  
  The BioEye 2015 competition is giving an opportunity to scientists and researchers to use a large, high quality database of eye movements and advance the field of eye movement biometrics.

  Tags: Biometrics, Competition

• Interview: John Schitka, SAP on The Type of Data Scientists We Need - Jan 24, 2015.
  
  We discuss the focus areas of Big Data strategy at SAP, how SAP is leading the competition, the kind of data scientists we need, advice and more.

  Tags: Big Data Strategy, Career, Competition, Data Scientist, Interview, John Schitka, SAP, SAP HANA

• PAN Competition 2015: Plagiarism Detection, Author ID, Author Profiling - Jan 8, 2015.
  
  Take part in one of 3 tasks: Plagiarism Detection - given a document, is it an original? Author Identification - given a document, who wrote it? Author Profiling - given a document, what is author age / gender?

  Tags: Author Detection, Author Profiling, Competition, Plagiarism Detection

• Enter a KDD Cup or Kaggle Competition. You don’t need to be an expert! - Jan 4, 2015.
  
  The webinar will show on the example of KDD Cup 2009 how Salford TreeNet can quickly achieve a top 5 result, and how to quickly build great models even if you are not an expert.

  Tags: Competition, Kaggle, KDD Cup, Regression, Salford Systems, TreeNet

• Interview: Ben Werther, CEO, Platfora on Why Big Data Needs Self-Service Tools - Dec 29, 2014.
  
  We discuss the importance of self-service model for Big Data tools, Small Data vs. Big Data, unique advantages of Platfora, key enhancements in Platfora 4.0 and more.

  Tags: Ben Werther, Competition, Data Democratization, Interview, Platfora, Self-service, Survey, Tools, Visualization

• Interview: Brian Hampton, SF 49ers on Competitive Edge through Football Analytics - Dec 20, 2014.
  
  We discuss the shortcomings of football analytics, how San Francisco 49ers use analytics, future of football analytics, advice and more.

  Tags: Analytics, Brian Hampton, Challenges, Coaching, Competition, Football, Interview, NFL, Sports, Team

• Interview: Brian Hampton, San Francisco 49ers on Playing Football the Analytics Way - Dec 19, 2014.
  
  We discuss the role of analytics in football, the underrated challenges, evolution since the era of draft trade value chart and analytics-supported team selection.

  Tags: Analytics, Brian Hampton, Challenges, Coaching, Competition, Football, NFL, Sports, Team

• National Data Science Bowl: Predict Ocean Health - Dec 16, 2014.
  
  Enter the 1st ever National Data Science bowl, with 175K in prizes and build an algorithm to automate the plankton image identification across 100+ classes. Plankton are critically important to ecosystem, but traditional methods for measuring their populations are time consuming and cannot scale for large-scale studies.

  Tags: Booz Allen, Competition, Image Recognition, Kaggle, Social Good

• FICO Analytics Competition: Helping Santa Helpers - Dec 11, 2014.
  
  FICO is sponsoring a Kaggle competition to optimize Santa's scheduling algorithm. Competitors can win in multiple categories and the best solution using FICO Xpress Optimization Suite will receive a special prize.

  Tags: Competition, FICO, Kaggle, Optimization, Santa, Scheduling

• DrivenData: Box-Plots for Education - Nov 11, 2014.
  
  DrivenData with ERS is seeking to improve budgetary strategy for public schools through this data science competition which aims to predict how budgets are allocated.

  Tags: Competition, DrivenData, Education, Nonprofit

• SemEval Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Competition - Nov 9, 2014.
  
  User-Generated content has resulted in an increased interest in sentiment mining, and with this, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA). Develop new techniques in ABSA for ABSA15.

  Tags: Competition, Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, User Generated Content

• To Hire Quants, Fix Your Hiring Process - Nov 7, 2014.
  
  Hiring talented quants requires an up-to-date hiring process including components like competitive salaries, special bonuses, expedient timelines, and that extra special touch to make your company stand out to quality candidates.

  Tags: Analytics Team, Burtch Works, Competition, Hiring, Salary

• DrivenData: Data Science Competitions for Social Good - Nov 4, 2014.
  
  DrivenData plans to bring cutting-edge practices in data science and crowdsourcing to some of the world's biggest social challenges and the organizations taking them on.

  Tags: Competition, Crowdsourcing, Data Science, DrivenData, Nonprofit, Social Good

• Boston Docker Global Hack Day and Meetup, Oct 30 - Oct 19, 2014.
  
  Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Join other Boston-area developers for Docker Global Hack Day #2 at O'Reilly Media in Cambridge, MA.

  Tags: Boston-MA, Cambridge-MA, Competition, Docker, Hackathon

• Competition: Forecasting social network dynamic graph - Oct 6, 2014.
  
  Forecast the creation and disruption of edges in social networks representing social platforms, mobile clients, or the research community. Competition runs until Nov 28.

  Tags: AlgoMost, Competition, Graph Analytics, Social Networks

• Mirador Open Data Competition - Oct 2, 2014.
  
  This competition wants to get people interested in data-driven hypothesis making by offering a tool that is as intuitive and engaging as possible, while maintaining solid scientific and statistical foundations. Submissions due Oct 28.

  Tags: Competition, Data Visualization, Healthcare, Mirador, Open Data

• One-handed Keystroke Biometric Identification Competition - Oct 2, 2014.
  
  Build a biometric keystroke classifier in this new competition to help identify the features that best predict one-handed typing samples. The prize for first place is a fingerprint scanner.

  Tags: Biometrics, Classification, Competition, Identification, Python

• COMAD India Graph Mining Programming contest - Sep 23, 2014.
  
  Compete in the graph mining programming competition at COMAD 2014 and apply your skills to finding subcommunities in networks. Registration deadline is October 15th, and code must be submitted by October 27th.

  Tags: Competition, Graph Analytics, Graph Mining, Programming

• Interview: Joe Otto, Alpine on Selecting the Right Big Data Vendor - Sep 10, 2014.
  
  We discuss Big Data vendor landscape, key relevant questions, Alpine's competitive differentiation, important qualities sought in data scientists, and more.

  Tags: Alpine, Collaboration, Competition, Hadoop, Interview, Joe Otto, Skills, Vendors

• Shifting CXO crowns and changing Analytics Leadership - Sep 3, 2014.
  
  Learn about how the analytics landscape has shifted in recent years and how this has pushed the CXO to pursue higher levels of analytics competition to meet business needs.

  Tags: Analytics Leader, Chief Data Officer, Competition, Debleena Roy, Tom Davenport

• TEXATA Big Data Analytics World Championships, KDnuggets Discount - Aug 5, 2014.
  
  The Big Data Analytics World Championship involves two online qualification rounds and a Live World Finals event held in Texas, USA in October 2014. Free registration for KDnuggets readers.

  Tags: Austin-TX, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Championship, Competition, TEXATA

• Interview: Thomas Levi, PlentyOfFish on What does Big Data tell us about Romance - Jul 30, 2014.
  
  We discuss interesting research on the state of romance in US, how PlentyOfFish is managing competition, personal journey from String Theory to Data Science, career advice and more.

  Tags: Advice, Competition, Data Science, LDA, Learning from Data, Online Dating, PlentyOfFish, Thomas Levi

• Innocentive Challenge: Novel Approaches for Predicting Life Expectancy - Jul 21, 2014.
  
  Help develop novel methods for life expectancy prediction without using traditional medical records, invasive tests, or examinations in this Innocentive Challenge. Submissions due by August 4th.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, Innocentive, Medical Applications, Prediction

• AlgoMost contest: Predicting future company acquisitions - Jun 11, 2014.
  
  Develop an algorithm to predict which companies are most likely to be acquired in the current fiscal year.

  Tags: Acquisitions, AlgoMost, Competition, Data Science, Startups

• Interview: Santhosh Adayikkoth, CEO, BigInfo Labs on Data Relevance and Intel Partnership - Jun 6, 2014.
  
  We discuss BigInfo Labs, the concept of "Data Relevance" in Big Data, experience of partnership with Intel, and BigInfo Labs' strategy for competitive differentiation.

  Tags: Competition, Innovation, Intel, RichRelevance, Santhosh Adayikkoth, Startup

• ICON Challenge on Forecasting and Scheduling - Jun 3, 2014.
  
  ICON is a combined competition with both a machine learning component (predicting energy prices) and an scheduling component (using the predicted prices to schedule tasks on machines).

  Tags: Competition, Forecasting, Scheduling

• Predict Soccer World Cup 2014 Winner, Get Prizes from RapidMiner - May 16, 2014.
  
  Use a free edition of RapidMiner to have fun and bring sports predictions to another level by making a prediction of Soccer (Futbol) World Cup 2014, which starts on June 12 in Brazil.

  Tags: Boston-MA, Brazil, Competition, RapidMiner, Soccer, World Cup

• KDD Cup 2014 – Predicting Excitement at DonorsChoose.org - May 16, 2014.
  
  Predict which Donor Choose projects will be exciting. 2014 edition of KDD Cup, the first data mining competition, is on Kaggle. Submissions due June 15.

  Tags: Charity, Competition, DonorsChoose, Kaggle, KDD-2014, New York-NY

• Has Predictive Analytics Crossed The Chasm? - May 15, 2014.
  
  Recent study highlights the increasing market perception that Predictive Analytics leads to competitive advantage. The report also outlines current trends and challenges for Predictive Analytics.

  Tags: Big Data, Competition, Crossing the Chasm, IBM, Predictive Analytics, Ventana Research

• VAST Visual Analytics Challenge 2014: Visualization and Crime-Solving - Apr 5, 2014.
  
  VAST Challenge 2014 involves three mini-challenges that focus on text, location, and streaming data analysis, and an overall Grand Challenge to test your skills. Submit entries before July 8.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, VAST, Visual Analytics

• DataScience Central competition: Automate jackknife regression - Apr 3, 2014.
  
  Data Science Central holds a competition to get statisticians more involved in Data Science - create a black-box, automated, easy-to-interpret, sample-based, robust technique called jackknife regression.

  Tags: Competition, Data Science Central, Regression, Statistics

• SAS Competition for Top Data Scientist in UK, Ireland - Apr 2, 2014.
  
  The contest, open to the academic and business communities, aims to find UK and Ireland best talent in analytics and data science. The goal is to produce an innovative forecast of energy demand.

  Tags: Competition, Energy, Ireland, Open Data, SAS, UK

• Innocentive: INSTINCT – The IARPA Trustworthiness Challenge - Mar 16, 2014.
  
  This challenge investigates novel statistical techniques to identify neurophysiological correlates of trustworthiness. Deadline: May 5.

  Tags: Challenge, Competition, IARPA, Innocentive, Neurophysiology, Trust

• Data Mining Cup 2014 – Student Competition – Starts - Mar 3, 2014.
  
  The DMC Competition is one of the largest Data Mining contests in the world, focusing on students. Registration starts Mar 3, task details will be published Apr 2.

  Tags: Competition, Data Mining Cup, Germany, Registration, Student Competition

• Kaggle March Machine Learning Mania - Feb 14, 2014.
  
  Can you turn 20 years of historical data into predictions for 2014 NCAA College Basketball Tournament, aka March Madness? Enter this Intel-sponsored tournament - predictions due Mar 19.

  Tags: Basketball, Competition, Intel, Kaggle, March Madness

• EMVIC 2014: Eye Movements Verification and Identification Competition, 2nd call - Feb 11, 2014.
  
  The goal is to determine how people may be identified based on their eye movement characteristic. No special equipment required - the organizers provide a dataset of eye movement recordings.

  Tags: Biometrics, Competition, Eye Movements, IEEE, IJCB

• Deep Learning Wins Dogs vs Cats competition on Kaggle - Feb 5, 2014.
  
  A Deep learning expert wins Kaggle Dogs vs Cats image competition with an almost perfect result.

  Tags: Cats, Competition, convnet, Deep Learning, Dogs, Facebook, Kaggle

• PAN Competition: Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, Author Profiling - Jan 15, 2014.
  
  Take part in one of 3 tasks: Plagiarism Detection - given a document, is it an original? Author Identification - given a document, who wrote it? Author Profiling - given a document, what is author age / gender?

  Tags: Author Detection, Author Profiling, Competition, Plagiarism Detection