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Machine Learning, from Single Core to Whole Cluster

The demand for production-quality software for mining insights from datasets across scales has exploded in the last several years. The growing size of datasets throughout industry, government, and other fields has increa Read more…

Google Adds AutoML to Kaggle

Google has integrated its automated machine learning tools into Kaggle, the data science development site it acquired in 2017, with the goal of expanding access to the site’s more than 3.5 million users. Google has Read more…

Data Competition Upgrades Zestimate Accuracy

The ability to reckon the value of what for many is their most valuable asset increased with the award this week of the Zillow Prize, a contest to tweak the accuracy of its Zestimate algorithm. The winner of the $1 mi Read more…

Why Deep Learning May Not Be So ‘Deep’ After All

Deep learning has given us tremendous new powers to spot patterns hidden in great globs of data. For some challenges, neural networks can even outperform top human experts. However, despite all the progress the new appro Read more…

H2O.ai Boasts New AI Product Like ‘Kaggle Grandmaster in a Box’

Want to get started with data science and artificial intelligence, but lack the skilled personnel to do it? You could be a candidate for machine learning software company H2O.ai's latest creation, Driverless AI, which it Read more…

Rise Up and Meet the Data Science Competition

Data scientists love challenges. So when a group of data scientists get together, it's natural that a little good-natured competition breaks out, to see who can best solve a particular challenge, for both ever-lasing glo Read more…

U.N. Launches Climate Data Challenge

Big data, data analytics, cloud and other environmental technology companies have signed up to support a United Nations-sponsored climate data challenge. U.N. Global Pulse, organizer of the big data initiative, and data storage vendor Western Digital Corp., announced a partnership on Thursday (March 9) to launch the "Data for Climate Action" challenge. Read more…

Google Buys Data Science Competition Site Kaggle

Google has acquired Kaggle, a company that hosts data science competitions, the Web giant confirmed yesterday. Founded in 2010, Kaggle has hosted thousands of competitions pitting data scientists against one another in a race to elegantly solve tough machine learning challenges. More than 800,000 people have participated in Kaggle challenges, making it by far the biggest data science competition site. Read more…

Elusive Seizure Signal the Subject of Kaggle Competition

Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disease that impacts the lives of 1 to 2% of the world's population, who generally have no idea when their next seizure will happen. Medical researchers who have been stumped so fa Read more…

Kaggle Tackles Whale of an Identification Problem

Kaggle has hosted lots of different data science competitions over the years, but none quite like the one launched by NOAA Fisheries earlier this year. The government agency, with financial support from MATLAB creator Ma Read more…

Kaggle Contest Aims to Separate Cats from Dogs

“Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess in 1997. Watson beat the brightest trivia minds at Jeopardy in 2011. Can you tell Fido from Mittens in 2013?” This is the message that data scientists are greeted with as part of the latest machine learning competition run by Kaggle. The challenge: building an algorithm that can distinguish cats from dogs. Read more…

Data Science Has Got Talent as Facebook Launches Competition

So you think you've got the talent to be a Facebook data scientist? Hold the resume – you won’t need it. Facebook is now moving their data science human resource search to Kaggle, the online data science competition portal. Read more…

Data Athletes and Performance Enhancing Algorithms

The competitive machine learning environment is delivering big breakthroughs and trends that may be changing the nature of computing itself. Read more…

Greenplum, Kaggle Team to Prospect Data Scientists

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, businesses in the United States alone will be short 140,000 to 190,000 data scientists by the year 2018. Greenplum intends to help solve this problem with a complete open sourcing of their Chorus platform and the resulting partnership with Kaggle, a website which fosters growth in the data science community by hosting data mining competitions among its 57,000 participants. Read more…

Making Sport of Data Science

Data and sports go hand in hand, but increasingly, data scientists are making sport of increasingly complex problems that real-world companies seek solutions to. Enter Kaggle, which is bringing a new challenge to boost healthcare analytics. Read more…

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