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Re:How Jetpac Built a Photo Quality Algorithm for $5k in 3 Weeks
on Sunday February 26, 2012 @03:25PM (#3636673)
the algorithm needed to execute quickly. image analysis takes too long.
How Jetpac Built a Photo Quality Algorithm for $5k in 3 Weeks
Tencent sponsors the 2012 KDD Cup (world's oldest data mining competition)
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)
on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @11:16AM (#3538553)
Kaggle - San Francisco, CA
We're looking for:
* Data scientists
* Developers (REMOTE)
* Technical sales
More information at http://www.kaggle.com/pages/jobs
Kaggle has just closed a large Series A ($11.25m). Our early employees will help shape Kaggle's direction and grow along with the company. Regardless of the position, you should have a strong interest in data science and the intellectual curiosity to engage with competition clients from a wide variety of fields.
Kaggle is aiming to build a meritocratic marketplace that will change the way data science gets done. Read more at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/kaggles-contests-crunch...
The world's smartest company?
A Site for Data Scientists to Prove Their Skills and Make Money
The Wikipedia Participation Prediction Challenge
Re:Competition Shines Light on Dark Matter
on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @02:06AM (#2704255)
FWIW, Martin O'Leary doesn't sound like a Jewish name.
Competition Shines Light on Dark Matter
FIDE sponsors a $10,000 competition to create a new chess rating system
Announcement of a $3 million algorithm competition (Netflix Prize but bigger)
Researchers use deanonymization to win the IJCNN Social Network Challenge
Melbourne Uni hosts a competition to predict the outcome of grant applications
Re:$10,000 algorithm competition: predict commute times on a Sydney fr...
on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @06:54PM (#1935880)
Doesn't seem to be anything stopping ppl from including other data.
$10,000 algorithm competition: predict commute times on a Sydney freeway
Using machine learning competitions to examine students
http://kaggle.com/blog/2010/11/08/kaggle-in-class-launches-with-stanford-stats-202/
I'd love to be in this class!
Student machine learning competition site launches with Stanford's Stats202
Data prediction competition site, Kaggle, gets a facelift
According to the new site "Crowdsourcing data modeling is an effective way to build predictive algorithms. There are any number of approaches that can be applied to a data modeling problem, but it is impossible to know at the outset which will be most effective."<p>Any thoughts on whether crowdsourcing is likely to be an efficient way to do data analytics?
The $25,000 Hearst Data Mining Challenge has just launched
Neat data viz on a professional chess game dataset
How I did it: Lee Baker on winning the tourism forecasting competition
A Portuguese physicist leads the competition to improve the Elo rating system
Who competes in machine learning competitions?
Re:Ask HN: Ideas for weekend projects?
on Sunday September 12, 2010 @08:34AM (#1683543)
Build a better chess rating system and enter your system into the following competition: http://kaggle.com/chess.
You may want to use machine learning techniques, which you can learn using the Andrew Ng's Stanford lectures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&feature=chann...).
Predictive analytics helps an IBM employee win fantasy football
Gmail launches the Priority Inbox - which orders emails by importance
Could data mining prevent another 60-mile traffic jam?
How do we choose a mate? What scientists are learning from online dating
How do you choose a PR company for a global Web 2.0 project?
Where do you start looking? Does it depend on the project's domain? Does it matter if you're not located in the same city/time zone/country?