MHB What is the Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 competition about?

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Kaggle hosts various data science competitions, including a recent one focused on lung cancer detection, which offers a substantial cash prize of $500,000 for the top model. This competition encourages participation from individuals with diverse backgrounds, from students to professionals, fostering innovation in medical applications. The format is similar to the Millennium Challenge Problems, but with a more applied focus on coding and practical solutions. Participants often find these competitions valuable for learning and skill development. Currently, another competition on Kaggle involves predicting house prices in the Russian housing market, attracting interest from those with relevant professional experience. Additionally, a computer vision competition is underway, challenging participants to identify and classify sea lions in images.
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There is a neat site called Kaggle that is home to lots of data science info and the place of very featured competitions with large cash prizes. The goal of this year's competition was to create a model to detect lung cancer. It just wrapped up last week and the results are being verified right now as far as I know. $500,000 goes to the 1st place model, so very big money here.

Since I have become a professional model builder/checker, I find this kind of thing really cool and a great idea. Present a challenge to the whole internet with a large cash prize and see what comes back. You could be a grad student, a medical doctor, or completely untrained in the traditional ways but if your model is the best you win.

In a way this is like the Millennium Challenge Problems, each with a $1 million prize but this is more applied and coding centered than those (well perhaps except the P=NP proof :D).

Anyway, what do you guys think about this competition and these kinds of competitions in general?
 
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I like it. Particularly, with the focus on cancer, who knows what benefits for the medical community may arise.
 
I am currently participating in a competition to recognize sea lions. The competition is fierce to be honest with many previous winners but it is always a good experience that you learn from. Also the Cash prize is a good incentive.
 
Yep. Nothing like a bit of money to force one to pull his finger out.
 
ZaidAlyafey said:
I am currently participating in a competition to recognize sea lions. The competition is fierce to be honest with many previous winners but it is always a good experience that you learn from. Also the Cash prize is a good incentive.

What contest is this for?

Currently there is another Kaggle competition on predicting house prices in the Russian housing market. I have done a similar project for my actual job so am very curious on the methods that contestants use.
 
Jameson said:
What contest is this for?

Currently there is another Kaggle competition on predicting house prices in the Russian housing market. I have done a similar project for my actual job so am very curious on the methods that contestants use.

It is a computer vision competition . The question is, given an image how many sea lions are there ? Actually it is more complicated since it asks for the type as well.
 

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