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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.
NASA Pose Bowl - Benchmark
An introduction to the NASA Pose Bowl competition, with a benchmark solution for the object detection track
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Introducing Community Code
View and share helpful code related to a competition in the new Community Code section!
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.
Meet the winners of VisioMel Challenge: Predicting Melanoma Relapse
Hear from the winners how they managed to predict melanoma relapse using digital pathology slides!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harnessing LLMs
An initial guide to using LLMs productively as a data scientist. This post covers LLM APIs, prompting, use cases, and more.
Data Tornadoes: What the flurry of AI ethics conversations misses
This era of generative AI is changing how we think and talk about AI ethics, but we shouldn't lose sight of what matters.
Meet the winners of the Tick Tick Bloom: Harmful Algal Bloom Detection Challenge
Meet the participants who cracked the code to detect harmful algal blooms! Monitoring cyanobacteria in lakes and reservoirs keeps both the human and marine life that rely on these water bodies safe and healthy.
Meet the Final Winners of the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge
Learn how these top teams applied novel privacy-enhancing technologies to the problems of financial crime and pandemic forecasting.
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