San Francisco-based Kaggle is a successful startup based around the idea of competition: Companies send data to Kaggle, which provides them to teams of data scientists who compete to come up with the ...

Data science is typically more of an art than a science, despite the name. You start with dirty data and an old statistical predictive model and try to do better with machine learning. Nobody checks ...

The technology industry loves its laws. There's Moore's Law of processing power, Metcalfe's Law of networks, and Gilder's Law about bandwidth. And then there's Joy's Law, a more obscure truism named ...

AI is changing the way businesses operate, but making sure AI systems work reliably at scale remains a challenge. Just like ...

For those unaware, Kaggle is a data science platform that gives access to tutorials while also hosting various coding competitions for its users. Your score in these competitions is listed on your ...

Jeremy Howard founded email company FastMail and the Optimal Decisions Group, which helps insurance companies set premiums. He is now president and chief scientist of Kaggle, which has turned data ...

Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions, confirming what sources told us when we reported the acquisition yesterday. The ...

Google is trying to foster more collaboration within the machine learning community, which is focused on a specific subset of artificial intelligence that tries to mimic the way the human brain learns ...

Kaggle---the San Francisco startup that has spent the past five years trying to push hardcore data science across the business world---has cut about a third of its staff as it tries to find new ways ...

In 2011 I got a phone call from an Australian founder, Anthony Goldbloom, who wanted to hear my story and opinion regarding the competition space and crowdsourcing platforms. At the time, I was ...