A data science competition platform is used by businesses to host

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

challenges that are hard to solve for one group. Historically,

crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digita ...

challenges have been known to solve very complex problems. The

Netflix Prize The Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings without any other information about the users or films, i.e. without the users being identified ...

is one such competition. Since then there have been several platforms developed on the idea of data science competitions. Research has been completed on how competition can improve research performance. Companies like J.P. Morgan Chase also run internal contests involving large numbers of employees. Examples of data science competition platforms includ
Bitgrit
Correlation One,

Kaggle Kaggle, a subsidiary of Google LLC, is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with othe ...

, InnoCentive
MicropredictionAIcrowd
and Alibaba Tianchi.

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's competition platform was used in KDD 2017.

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