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How to Map Floodwater from Radar Imagery using Semantic Segmentation - Benchmark

We'll show you how to tune a U-Net model to measure flood extent using Sentinel-1 synthetic-aperture radar imagery.

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Meet the Winners of the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge: Sprint 3

Learn how these top teams built the most accurate ways to privatize millions of taxi rides.

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Overhead Geopose Challenge - Benchmark

We'll show you how to get started with the residual U-NET benchmark model, a state-of-the-art approach to predicting the height and pose of ground objects for monocular satellite images taken from oblique angles.

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Meet the winners of MagNet: Model the Geomagnetic Field

Meet the winners who were best able to predict disturbances in Earth's magnetic field, and hear them explain their creative solutions.

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Meet the Winners of the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge: Sprint 2

Learn how these top teams built the most accurate ways to privatize census records.

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Meet the winners of Wind-dependent Variables: Predict Wind Speeds of Tropical Storms

Meet the winners who were best able to estimate the wind speeds of tropical storms at different points in time using satellite images.

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Meet the winners of the Genetic Engineering Attribution Challenge

Check out the winning solutions to identify the lab-of-origin for genetically engineered DNA, and meet their leaderboard-topping creators.

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Meet the winners of the Hateful Memes Challenge

Hear from the winners who were best able to detect hate speech in memes using multi-modal models.

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Meet the Winners of the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge: Sprint 1

Hear how these top teams built the most accurate ways to privatize emergency call data in Baltimore.

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How to Predict Disturbances in the Geomagentic Field with LSTMs - Benchmark

We'll show you how to train an LSTM network using space weather data to predict changes in Earth's magnetic field for our latest challenge.

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How to Use Deep Learning to Predict Tropical Storm Wind Speeds - Benchmark

We'll show you how to start predicting wind speeds for our latest disaster preparedness challenge.

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Meet the winners of TissueNet: Detect Lesions in Cervical Biopsies

Hear from the winners who were best able to diagnose whole slide images of cervical biopsies using computer vision.

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America's Next Top (Statistical) Model 2020 - Benchmark

There's a lot at stake in the 2020 U.S. election. Can you predict the outcome? This benchmark shows you how to try using pollster data from FiveThirtyEight.

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Meet the winners of the Clog Loss Challenge for Alzheimer's Research

Meet the winners who were best able to detect clogged blood vessels and advance Alzheimer's research from 3D image stacks.

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Genetic Engineering Attribution - Benchmark

In this post we'll show you how to train a random forest model to predict the lab-of-origin from DNA sequences!

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The missing guide to AzureML, Part 3: Connecting to data and running your machine learning pipeline

Use what you've learned about AzureML to create and run your first machine learning pipeline in the AzureML cloud.

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The missing guide to AzureML, Part 2: Configuring your compute script and compute target

Configure cloud hardware and software to run your machine learning code.

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The missing guide to AzureML, Part 1: Setting up your AzureML workspace

Get acquainted with core Azure and AzureML concepts, and set up your first AzureML workspace.

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Advance Alzheimer’s Research with Stall Catchers - Benchmark

In this guest post by MathWorks, we'll show you how to start working with videos to determine if a blood vessel is stalled or flowing.

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How to build a multimodal deep learning model to detect hateful memes

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

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Meet the winners of the Open Cities AI Challenge

Meet the winners with the best building segmentation models and ethical perspectives for disaster risk management

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Flu Shot Learning: Predict H1N1 and Seasonal Flu Vaccines - Benchmark

In this post, we will show you how to get started with machine learning for predicting flu vaccination.

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