datageek's submissions

1.		Computers can recognise a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness (economist.com)
		12 points by datageek on Sept 17, 2015 \| past
2.		How Jetpac Built a Photo Quality Algorithm for $5k in 3 Weeks (readwriteweb.com)
		41 points by datageek on Feb 26, 2012 \| past \| 14 comments
3.		Tencent sponsors the 2012 KDD Cup (world's oldest data mining competition) (kddcup2012.org)
		1 point by datageek on Feb 23, 2012 \| past
4.		The world's smartest company? (mirror.co.uk)
		1 point by datageek on Nov 9, 2011 \| past
5.		A Site for Data Scientists to Prove Their Skills and Make Money (nytimes.com)
		1 point by datageek on Nov 4, 2011 \| past
6.		The Wikipedia Participation Prediction Challenge (wikimedia.org)
		3 points by datageek on June 28, 2011 \| past
7.		Competition Shines Light on Dark Matter (whitehouse.gov)
		37 points by datageek on June 28, 2011 \| past \| 12 comments
8.		FIDE sponsors a $10,000 competition to create a new chess rating system (kaggle.com)
		1 point by datageek on Feb 8, 2011 \| past
9.		Announcement of a $3 million algorithm competition (Netflix Prize but bigger) (youtube.com)
		2 points by datageek on Feb 4, 2011 \| past
10.		Researchers use deanonymization to win the IJCNN Social Network Challenge (kaggle.com)
		9 points by datageek on Jan 16, 2011 \| past
11.		Melbourne Uni hosts a competition to predict the outcome of grant applications (kaggle.com)
		1 point by datageek on Dec 13, 2010 \| past
12.		$10,000 algorithm competition: predict commute times on a Sydney freeway (kaggle.com)
		106 points by datageek on Nov 23, 2010 \| past \| 46 comments
13.		Using machine learning competitions to examine students (kaggle.com)
		2 points by datageek on Nov 8, 2010 \| past
14.		Student machine learning competition site launches with Stanford's Stats202 (kaggle.com)
		1 point by datageek on Nov 8, 2010 \| past
15.		Data prediction competition site, Kaggle, gets a facelift (kaggle.com)
		3 points by datageek on Oct 27, 2010 \| past
16.		The $25,000 Hearst Data Mining Challenge has just launched (hearstchallenge.com)
		4 points by datageek on Oct 14, 2010 \| past \| 1 comment
17.		Neat data viz on a professional chess game dataset (kaggle.com)
		2 points by datageek on Oct 12, 2010 \| past
18.		How I did it: Lee Baker on winning the tourism forecasting competition (kaggle.com)
		2 points by datageek on Sept 27, 2010 \| past
19.		A Portuguese physicist leads the competition to improve the Elo rating system (kaggle.com)
		2 points by datageek on Sept 21, 2010 \| past
20.		Who competes in machine learning competitions? (kaggle.com)
		4 points by datageek on Sept 15, 2010 \| past
21.		Predictive analytics helps an IBM employee win fantasy football (ibm.com)
		1 point by datageek on Sept 2, 2010 \| past
22.		Gmail launches the Priority Inbox - which orders emails by importance (gigaom.com)
		1 point by datageek on Sept 1, 2010 \| past
23.		Could data mining prevent another 60-mile traffic jam? (smartplanet.com)
		1 point by datageek on Aug 28, 2010 \| past
24.		How do we choose a mate? What scientists are learning from online dating (boston.com)
		4 points by datageek on Aug 24, 2010 \| past
25.		How do you choose a PR company for a global Web 2.0 project?
		1 point by datageek on Aug 17, 2010 \| past
26.		Use brute force to find an available domain name for Web 2.0 projects (bruteforcenaming.com)
		57 points by datageek on Aug 16, 2010 \| past \| 17 comments
27.		Tourism forecasting competition - winner invited to publish in leading journal (kaggle.com)
		1 point by datageek on Aug 10, 2010 \| past
28.		Chessmetrics developer, Jeff Sonas, on how he became interested in chess ratings (kaggle.com)
		1 point by datageek on Aug 6, 2010 \| past
29.		Move over Elo - crowdsourcing a new chess rating system (kaggle.com)
		21 points by datageek on Aug 3, 2010 \| past \| 17 comments
30.		Benford's Law (a neat fraud detection technique) applied to Wikileaks data (drewconway.com)
		2 points by datageek on Aug 3, 2010 \| past \| 1 comment
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