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Computers can recognise a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness

economist.com·12 pts·datageek·
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How Jetpac Built a Photo Quality Algorithm for $5k in 3 Weeks

readwriteweb.com·41 pts·datageek·
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Tencent sponsors the 2012 KDD Cup (world's oldest data mining competition)

kddcup2012.org·1 pts·datageek·
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The world's smartest company?

mirror.co.uk·1 pts·datageek·
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A Site for Data Scientists to Prove Their Skills and Make Money

bits.blogs.nytimes.com·1 pts·datageek·
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The Wikipedia Participation Prediction Challenge

blog.wikimedia.org·3 pts·datageek·
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Competition Shines Light on Dark Matter

whitehouse.gov·37 pts·datageek·
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FIDE sponsors a $10,000 competition to create a new chess rating system

kaggle.com·1 pts·datageek·
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Announcement of a $3 million algorithm competition (Netflix Prize but bigger)

youtube.com·2 pts·datageek·
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Researchers use deanonymization to win the IJCNN Social Network Challenge

kaggle.com·9 pts·datageek·
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Melbourne Uni hosts a competition to predict the outcome of grant applications

kaggle.com·1 pts·datageek·
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$10,000 algorithm competition: predict commute times on a Sydney freeway

kaggle.com·106 pts·datageek·
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Using machine learning competitions to examine students

kaggle.com·2 pts·datageek·
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Student machine learning competition site launches with Stanford's Stats202

inclass.kaggle.com·1 pts·datageek·
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Data prediction competition site, Kaggle, gets a facelift

kaggle.com·3 pts·datageek·
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The $25,000 Hearst Data Mining Challenge has just launched

hearstchallenge.com·4 pts·datageek·
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Neat data viz on a professional chess game dataset

kaggle.com·2 pts·datageek·
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How I did it: Lee Baker on winning the tourism forecasting competition

kaggle.com·2 pts·datageek·
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A Portuguese physicist leads the competition to improve the Elo rating system

kaggle.com·2 pts·datageek·
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Who competes in machine learning competitions?

kaggle.com·4 pts·datageek·
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Predictive analytics helps an IBM employee win fantasy football

www-950.ibm.com·1 pts·datageek·
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Gmail launches the Priority Inbox - which orders emails by importance

gigaom.com·1 pts·datageek·
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Could data mining prevent another 60-mile traffic jam?

smartplanet.com·1 pts·datageek·
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How do we choose a mate? What scientists are learning from online dating

boston.com·4 pts·datageek·
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How do you choose a PR company for a global Web 2.0 project?

1 pts·datageek·
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Use brute force to find an available domain name for Web 2.0 projects

bruteforcenaming.com·57 pts·datageek·
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Tourism forecasting competition - winner invited to publish in leading journal

kaggle.com·1 pts·datageek·
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Chessmetrics developer, Jeff Sonas, on how he became interested in chess ratings

kaggle.com·1 pts·datageek·
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Move over Elo - crowdsourcing a new chess rating system

kaggle.com·21 pts·datageek·
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Benford's Law (a neat fraud detection technique) applied to Wikileaks data

drewconway.com·2 pts·datageek·
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