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

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The Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 competition focused on developing a model to detect lung cancer, offering a substantial cash prize of $500,000 for the first-place winner. This competition attracted participants from diverse backgrounds, including professionals and amateurs, emphasizing the accessibility of data science challenges. The event concluded recently, with results currently under verification. Additionally, ongoing competitions on Kaggle include predicting house prices in the Russian housing market and recognizing sea lions through computer vision techniques.

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  • Knowledge of Kaggle competition structure and rules
  • Experience with data preprocessing and feature extraction
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This discussion is beneficial for data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and anyone interested in participating in Kaggle competitions, particularly those focused on medical applications and computer vision challenges.

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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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