Competition posts

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

We're excited to launch a new competition with our partner Dar Si Hmad and sponsor Tableau Foundation.

See who kept it the freshest — meet the winners of the Keeping It Fresh competition.

We're excited to launch a new comeptition with our partner Metis. The question at hand is: can you identify a bee as a honey bee or a bumble bee?

We were so excited about our new civic innovation competition we couldn't help but get started ourselves! The goal for this competition is to use data from Yelp restaurant reviews to narrow the search for health code violations in Boston. Competitors will have access to historical hygiene violation records from the City of Boston — a leader in open government data — and Yelp's consumer reviews. The challenge: Figure out the words, phrases, ratings, and patterns that predict violations, and help public health inspectors do their job better.

Can you use the patterns, words, and phrases in Yelp reviews of restaurants to predict the number of hygeine violations that city health inspectors uncover?

We're now about 2 weeks into the "Countable Care: Modeling Women's Health Care Decisions" competition, and things are heating up!

People have been a little reticent to start digging in to the Millenium Development Goals challenge. We thought a little sample code might help get things started. Here's an IPython notebook that should get get you from zero to submission in a few minutes.