Description
Kaggle is an innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing. They are the leading platform for data modeling and prediction competitions. Their crowdsourced data modeling is an effective way to build predictive algorithms. Companies, governments and researchers present datasets and problems. The world's best data scientists then compete to produce the best solutions. At the end of a competition, the competition host pays prize money in exchange for the intellectual property behind the winning model.
Location
United States of America
Editor's comments
Kaggle's community of data scientists comprises thousands of PhDs from quantitative fields such as computer science, statistics, econometrics, maths and physics. They come from over 100 countries and 200 universities. In addition to the prize money and data, they use Kaggle to meet, network and collaborate with experts from related fields. The result for their clients is cheaper, faster and more powerful analytics.
Kaggle is proud to have achieved extraordinary results that have outperformed betting markets and advanced the state of the art in HIV research and chess ratings.