Google is acquiring Kaggle

Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by luckystartup on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:42AM (#13820962)

> Kaggle, which has about half a million data scientists on its platform, ...

Are there really that many data scientists? I thought it was a niche specialty. Is there enough work for that many people?

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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by rcar on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:47AM (#13821001)

Think they maybe put a 0 in the wrong spot. Kaggle's leaderboard only shows ~50k: https://www.kaggle.com/rankings

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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by codezero on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:45AM (#13820981)

I think they mean unique users.

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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by govg on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:45AM (#13820980)

A lot of them are academics who participate out of interest, and I'm sure a significant amount are regular software engineers trying to get their hands dirty with ML.

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