Tag: competition
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#Datathon2018: An online Data Hackathon
Data Science Society is organizing the first ONLINE #Datathon2018 – a 48-hours challenge for all people passionate about data, willing to experiment with new types of data, and expand their network of connections in the field globally. The Online #Datathon2018 The Datathon is one of the initiatives of Data Science Society, happening for the third…
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NBA Basketball Analytics Hackathon
The National Basketball Association is hosting an Analytics Hackathon. Application are accepted until August 6, 2017 and the actual competition occurs on September 23-24, 2017. The competition has 2 focus areas: Basketball Analytics Business Analytics The prizes for winning consist of: Lunch with NBA Commissioner A trip to the All-Star Game Tickets to a game…
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A Couple of Current Data Science Competitions
Decoding Brain Signals Microsoft has recently announced a machine learning competition platform. As part of the launch, one of the first competitions is the prediction of brain signals. It has $5000 in prizes, and submissions are accepted thru June 30, 2016. Big Data Viz Challenge Google and Tableau have teamed up to offer a big…
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Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition
The 2016 Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition (MUDAC) will be held at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota on April 2 and 3. What is MUDAC? MUDAC is an intense 2-day analytics competition aimed at undergraduate students. Teams compete to solve a problem posed by an external organization. Who can compete? Teams of 3 to…
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National Data Science Bowl
Kaggle and Booz | Allen | Hamilton have just launched the National Data Science Bowl. It is a data science competition hosted at Kaggle. If you are interested in getting started, a tutorial is available in iPython format. Best of Luck!
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Increase Your Kaggle Score With a Random Forest
Previously, I blogged about submitting your first solution to Kaggle for the Biological Response Competition. Well, that technique used Logistic Regression and the resulting score was not very good. Now, let’s try to improve upon that score. In this example, we will use what is called a Random Forest. Kaggle claims that random forests have…
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Your First Kaggle Submission
Yesterday, I wrote a post explaining the Kaggle Biological Response competition. If you don’t know, Kaggle is a website for data science competitions. Now it is time to submit a solution. After this post, you should have a spot on the Leaderboard. Granted, it will not be first place but it won’t be last place…
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Get Started With Kaggle – Description
Yesterday, I posted about the popularity of data hackathons. Well, today let’s get started with Kaggle. This is the first of a few simple posts about making your first submission to a Kaggle competition. I also promise you won’t be last place. You won’t be first either. This is an excellent way to start developing…
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Github Is Cool: They Like Data
Today, GitHub announced the release of archived public activity data called the GitHub public timeline. The dataset can be queried via the Google BigQuery tool. To make things even more awesome, GitHub is also hosting a Data Challenge. The challenge is to play around with data and create the best visualization possible. You better start…