Facebook is hosting a Kaggle competition in order to identify candidate for a data scientist position. Résumés are so passé when you can just have applicants prove their skills first.…
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Kaggle now has 100K data scientists, but what’s a data scientist?
Kaggle has reached an impressive milestone of 100,000 data scientists competing on its online platform. This is due, in part, to Kaggle helping lower the bar for getting started with data science.…
Read MoreOn Kaggle, GE finds data science solutions for patients and pilots
GE, an airline and a health system have crowdsourced data science questions using Kaggle and are now paying out $600,000 to winners of two competitions.…
Read MoreMeet Kaggle Connect: matchmaker for data scientists and companies that need them
Putting the right brains on the right problems is the goal of Kaggle Connect.…
Read MoreGreenplum and Kaggle launch big data matchmaking service
EMC's Greenplum division hopes to encourage users of its Chorus big data application to reach out to the Kaggle community of data scientists to do real-world work. The company also inked partnerships with Gnip and Tableau and open-sourced a version of Chorus.…
Read MoreWhy becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think
Several novice programmers who signed up for a free machine-learning class on Coursera have gone on recently to win predictive-modeling competitions. Maybe it's not that hard to mint new data scientists after all.…
Read MoreNASA tries to free creativity with Big Data Challenge
NASA and a couple other government agencies have kicked off a series of TopCoder challenges designed to find innovative solutions to the government's big data problems. The first contest is all about making disparate, incompatible data sets usable and actually valuable across agencies.…
Read MoreForget your fancy data science, try overkill analytics
Carter S. won his first-ever Kaggle competition -- our own GigaOM WordPress Challenge -- using a brute force method of data science he calls overkill analytics. Rather than spend untold hours perfecting complex models, Carter used simple algorithms and let powerful microprocessors do the rest.…
Read MoreCan Kaggle make data science a spectator sport?
Data science competition platform Kaggle is opening up the leaderboards for its invitation-only private competitions, meaning anyone can watch and see how the world's best data scientists are faring in these special challenges. Can data science actually become a spectator sport in the analytics community?…
Read MoreGigaOM Data Challenge: Predict which stories get read, win $10K
In publishing, there's a constant struggle to determine who'll read what posts, what the ideal headline might is and when is the best time to publish. GigaOM is teaming with Splunk to find some answers via a Kaggle competition worth a total of $25,000 in prizes.…
Read MoreKaggle is now crowdsourcing big data creativity
In a move to expand its utility beyond simply finding better answers to known statistical problems, hot data-science startup Kaggle is now letting its stable of expert data scientists compete to tell companies how they can improve their businesses using machine learning.…
Read MoreHow big data predicted Eurovision — and offended Malta
When a data scientist crunched enough numbers to predict that Sweden would win this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest, he felt fairly confident. But he didn't expect that the biggest noise would be the inaccurate prediction that Malta would do well -- something he's now apologized for.…
Read MoreHow Allstate uses data to calculate your premiums
Predicting risk is key to the way insurance companies figure out your monthly rates and premiums, and it needs data and time to do so. Allstate said at Structure:Data that the best use of this data was to give it to the 30,000 scientists competing on Kaggle.…
Read MoreWhy cloud could make crowdsourcing the norm for scientists
In the world of science, cloud computing provides an ideal platform for crowdsourcing scientific problems across the whole world of researchers, giving them access to data sets and the computing resources to analyze them. If big data is any indicator, scientific crowdsourcing should catch on.…
Read More10 cloud startups to watch in 2012
All startup activity around cloud computing in the past few years has been great, but it also means there's precious little room on the playing field for newcomers. Here are 10 cloud startups launched in 2011 that have a chance to make it big in 2012.…
Read MoreKaggle gets $11M to crowdsource big data jobs
Big data technology is attracting some big bucks. Kaggle, a startup that helps companies outsource large business analytics projects by turning them into large-scale competitions for scientists around the world, will announce Thursday it has secured $11 million in venture capital funding.…
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