Blog

Tue 19 December 2017

Benchmark for Pover-T Test - Predicting Poverty

We're launching a new competition to predict poverty. In this post, we'll show you how to get started!

Mon 18 December 2017

Bridging the AI application gap

The focus of the Concept to Clinic challenge is to make AI advances useful — not just for data scientists interested in cutting-edge methods, but for clinicians working on the front lines of lung cancer detection and the patients they serve.

Tue 12 December 2017

Interview with Concept to Clinic panelist Dr. Jason Hostetter

We interview Concept to Clinic panelist Dr. Jason Hostetter

Mon 04 December 2017

Interview with Concept to Clinic contributor Serhiy Shekhovtsov (@Serhiy-Shekhovtsov)

We interview Concept to Clinic challenge contributor Serhiy Shekhovtsov (@Serhiy-Shekhovtsov)

Mon 30 October 2017

Hidden Signals Challenge: can you help identify biothreats in real time?

Can you help identify biothreats in real time? Submit a concept by 12/4/17!

Wed 18 October 2017

Pri-matrix Factorization - Benchmark

How about some deep learning to identify wild animals in camera traps? Here's a benchmark post to get contributors started in our newest challenge.

Wed 20 September 2017

How the Concept to Clinic challenge uses Docker for reproducibility and orchestration

Ensuring easy setup of the application stack and efficient segmentation of the various components of the Concept to Clinic challenge is precisely where Docker excels, especially when used with Docker Compose, its tool for declaring and orchestrating multiple services. In this post, we'll dive into some background on Docker and explain how we're using it in the Concept to Clinic challenge.

Fri 08 September 2017

Interview with Concept to Clinic contributor Willi Gierke (@WGierke)

We had an e-chat to learn more about prolific Concept to Clinic challenge contributor Willi Gierke (@WGierke)

Mon 28 August 2017

Random walk of the penguins

The goal of this data science competition was to reach out to the data science community to build a model that predicts penguin populations.

Tue 08 August 2017

Now live: a new kind of data challenge

Just this week we launched a new $100,000 challenge where competition-tested algorithms are just the beginning.

Fri 28 April 2017

Random Walk of the Penguins - Benchmark

Penguins are so adorable! Here's our first pass at predicting penguin populations in Antarctica.

Fri 23 December 2016

DengAI: Predicting Disease Spread - Benchmark

We're launching a new competition to forecast the spread of dengue.

Wed 21 December 2016

Why Elections Are a Terrible Showcase for Data Science

The 2016 election was a bad showcase for the powers of data science.

Tue 20 December 2016

Trying to Get It Right when Everyone was Wrong

The best we can do with the polls.

Thu 13 October 2016

America's Next Top (Statistical) Model - Benchmark

We're launching a new competition for forecasting the 2016 presidential election.

Mon 10 October 2016

Meet the winners of the safe aging challenge

See how DrivenData's Top Modelers managed to predict activities from sensor data

Thu 21 July 2016

SciPy 2016: "Data Science is Software" tutorial

Video footage of Peter and Isaac from their pilgrimage to SciPy 2016

Tue 19 July 2016

Visualizing a Future for Fog Nets

Meet the folks who used their data visualization and modeling skills to help Dar Si Hamd!

Mon 06 June 2016

There's no place like $HOME

We're launching a new competition for safe aging at home generously sponsored by AARP Foundation

Tue 19 April 2016

Building the best naïve bees classifier!

These are the people who were best able to distinguish honeybees from bumblebees and how they did it.