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How to make data science projects more open and inclusive

Key practices from the field of open science for making data science work more transparent, inclusive, and equitable.

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Meet the winners of the Kelp Wanted challenge

Dive into the solutions from the super segmenters who best detected kelp in Landsat imagery!

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Meet the winners of the SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge

Meet the winners with the best systems for detecting clinical terms in medical notes.

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Meet the winners of the Pale Blue Dot challenge

Learn about the top visuals created for the Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge and the solvers behind them.

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NASA Pose Bowl - Benchmark

An introduction to the NASA Pose Bowl competition, with a benchmark solution for the object detection track

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SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge - Benchmark

In this guest post from Veratai, we'll help you get started with the SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge!

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Meet the winners of the Research Rovers: AI Research Assistants for NASA Challenge

Meet the teams who demonstrated winning solutions for the Research Rovers: AI Research Assistants for NASA Challenge.

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Meet the winners of the Unsupervised Wisdom Challenge!

Introducing the winners of the Unsupervised Wisdom Challenge! Meet the top teams who explored emergency department narratives about older adult falls.

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Kelp Wanted Challenge - Benchmark

In this guest post by MathWorks, we'll show you how to start working with satellite images to detect the presence of kelp in coastal areas.

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On OpenAI's Entity Structure and Governance

What the shakeup in OpenAI's leadership tells us for the future of AI governance and the role of nonprofits in tech.

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Open data using AI for climate action

How can we use data and AI to help combat the effects of climate change? This second post pulls together real-world datasets from DrivenData challenges for those looking to get hands-on experience.

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Open Earth Observation Data for the Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge

There is a huge variety of Earth observation datasets that can help to address our world's most pressing challenge. All the options can be hard to navigate. Learn about some key datasets and resources for getting started!

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Monitoring water quality from satellite imagery

DrivenData created an open-source package to detect harmful algal blooms using machine learning and satellite imagery. Included running a machine-learning competition, conducting end user interviews, and engineering a deployable pipeline

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A Beginner's Guide to Satellite Data

Feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of satellite data? We've been there. Join one of our data scientists on their learning journey to understand what satellite data is all about!

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Introducing Community Code

View and share helpful code related to a competition in the new Community Code section!

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5 ways organizations are using AI for climate action

How can we use data and AI to help combat the effects of climate change? This post walks through real-world examples from DrivenData challenges working with public, private, and social sector organizations.

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Meet the winners of VisioMel Challenge: Predicting Melanoma Relapse

Hear from the winners how they managed to predict melanoma relapse using digital pathology slides!

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Meet the winners of the Video Similarity Challenge!

Introducing the winners of the Meta AI Video Similarity Challenge! Meet the top teams who identified copied and manipulated videos.

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Meet the finalists of the Pushback to the Future Challenge

Meet the participants who built the best models for predicting when flights will push back from the gate! These finalists will enter the next phase of the competition and collaborate with NASA scientists to explore translating their winning models into privacy-preserving federated learning models.

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Community Spotlight: Brett Mullins

The Community Spotlight features fantastic members from our DrivenData community. Brett Mullins is a graduate student whose work focuses on differential privacy and explainable machine learning.

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Community Spotlight: Dr. Helen Yannakoudakis

The Community Spotlight features fantastic members from our DrivenData community. Dr. Helen Yannakoudakis is an Assistant Professor and the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Kinhub.

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Harnessing LLMs

An initial guide to using LLMs productively as a data scientist. This post covers LLM APIs, prompting, use cases, and more.

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