Kaggle
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| Industry | Data science |
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| Founded | April 2010 |
| Founder | Anthony Goldbloom |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
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Key people
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Anthony Goldbloom (CEO) Ben Hamner (CTO) Jeff Moser (Chief Architect) |
| Products | Competitions, Jobs Board, Kaggle Scripts, Kaggle Datasets |
| Services | predictive modeling competitions, hosted public datasets |
| Website | www |
In 2010, Kaggle was founded as a platform for predictive modelling and analytics competitions on which companies and researchers post their data and statisticians and data miners from all over the world compete to produce the best models. This crowdsourcing approach relies on the fact that there are countless strategies that can be applied to any predictive modelling task and it is impossible to know at the outset which technique or analyst will be most effective. Kaggle also hosts recruiting competitions in which data scientists compete for a chance to interview at leading data science companies like Facebook, Winton Capital, and Walmart.
In April 2015, Kaggle released the first version of their Scripts product onto their platform. Scripts allows users to write, run, and publicly share their code on Kaggle. In January 2016, Kaggle released their Datasets product, making a selection of public datasets available on Kaggle. Each datasets has Scripts enabled, as well as a dedicated forum, allowing for conversation and collaboration between data scientists and the work they are doing on each dataset. On 8 July 2016, Kaggle renamed its Scripts product to Kernels.
As of May 2016, Kaggle had over 536,000 registered users, or Kagglers. The community spans 194 countries. It is the largest and most diverse data community in the world. Kagglers come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including fields such as computer science, computer vision, biology, medicine, and even glaciology. Kaggle competitions regularly attract over a thousand teams and individuals. The Kaggle community is active and committed, with 4,000 forum posts per month and over 3,500 competition submissions per day. It also includes many of the world’s best-known researchers, including members of IBM Watson’s Jeopardy-winning team and the team working on Google’s DeepMind. Many of these researchers publish papers in peer-reviewed journals based on their performance in Kaggle competitions.
Alongside its public competitions, Kaggle also offers private competitions limited to Kaggle's top participants. Kaggle also offers a free tool for data science teachers to run academic machine learning competitions, Kaggle In Class.
Kaggle has run over 200 data science competitions since the company was founded. It is best known as the platform hosting the $3 million Heritage Health Prize. Other competitions have looked at improving gesture recognition for Microsoft Kinect, or at improving the search for the Higgs boson at CERN.
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