We’ve written about Kaggle before, but here’s a new post from the New York Times about the site and some new funding they’ve received.
Nov 04
May 13
Overstock.com has partnered with Rich Relevance to offer a $1 million prize for those that can help improve their product recommendations. Here’s the Fast Company article. To find out more about the contest, check out the RecLab Prize site.
Feb 03
Kaggle has hosted several data mining competitions, similar to the Netflix prize, but recently announced a new and big one. It’s called the Heritage Health Prize and the prize has been set at $3M. The focus on the prize is being able to predict when a person needs to go to the hospital before they actually make a visit. Here’s some more info from O’Reilly Radar. And here is Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle announcing the contest at the Strata Conference…
Jan 22
Mozilla announces the winners of their open data visualization competition.
Sep 19
Check out the 2010 INFORMS Data Mining Contest. Participants are challenged to predict stock prices at five minute intervals. Visit the site to download the training data set. The submission deadline in October 10th, 2010.
Aug 10
With the first Netflix Prize coming to a conclusion, Netflix has announced Netflix Prize 2. This one will be shorter than the first with prizes being awarded after 6 and 18 months. Here’s an article from O’Reilly with more info.
