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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.
Tracking attacks on health care in Ukraine
DrivenData built a real-time, interactive map to visualize attacks on the Ukrainian health care system. The map will support partner efforts to provide aid, hold aggressors accountable in court, and increase public awareness.
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.
Meet the BioMassters
Meet the minds behind the top models for predicting aboveground biomass using remote sensing data!
VisioMel Challenge: Predicting Melanoma Relapse - Benchmark
Get started with the VisioMel Challenge! Come up with the best algorithms for predicting melanoma relapse.
What wins data competitions? (And what you can learn from it)
Learn what wins data competitions in 2022 and 2023, and how you can apply these insights to your own work.
The Basics of Python Packaging in Early 2023
Explaining the basic concepts and best practices for creating Python packages in early 2023 using pyproject.toml build standards.
Pushback to the Future: Predict Pushback Time at US Airports - Benchmark
Get started with the Pushback to the Future challenge! Come up with the best algorithms for predicting a flight's pushback time from real-time flight data.
What's a takahē?
Although Zamba's models are trained with animals from Africa and Europe, they can be used with videos from other locations that show species the models have never seen. We demonstrate with a dataset from New Zealand.
Meet the winners of the Mars Spectrometry 2: Gas Chromatography Challenge
Meet the minds behind the top models for identifying the chemical composition of planetary soil samples using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry!
How to Predict Harmful Algal Blooms Using LightGBM and Satellite Imagery
We'll show how to use satellite imagery and LightGBM to create a tree-based model predicting harmful algal blooms. This post will help you get started on our new Tick Tick Bloom Challenge!
Standing on the Threshold
Using probabilistic classifications from Zamba, we can automatically remove a large majority of blank videos while controlling the fraction of wildlife videos we lose. But how do we know where to draw the line?
Getting started with the Meta AI Video Similarity Challenge
In this post, we walk through the steps for getting started with the Meta AI Video Similarity Challenge.
Meet the Winners of the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge: Phase 1
Hear how these top teams applied novel privacy-enhancing technologies to the problems of financial crime and pandemic forecasting.
Find all the pangolins
We can use Zamba's probablistic classifications to search for videos containing specific animals. Particularly for small animals, this strategy can be highly effective.
The BioMassters Challenge - Benchmark
In this guest post by MathWorks, we'll show you how to start working with satellite data to help conservationists predict above ground biomass.
You can stop watching blank videos
Using Zamba's probablistic classifications, you can identify and remove blank videos -- saving viewing time, storage space, and data transfer costs -- while minimizing the loss of videos that contain animals.
Computer Vision for Wildlife Monitoring in a Changing Climate
Through the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Accelerator, DrivenData and the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation are teaming up to create automated, accurate, and accessible species detection tools.
Mars Spectrometry 2: Gas Chromatography - Benchmark
In this post, we will show you how to get started on analyzing gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) data.
Meet the winners of the Snowcast Showdown competition
Meet the winners who most accurately estimated snow water equivalent across the Western U.S. in real-time.
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