Kaggle.com lets organizations and individuals post problems to its massive community of scientists. The prospect of crowdsourcing some of the world’s thorniest data conundrums is evidently a popular one: more than 82,000 people from 100 countries have signed on.
I have to say that I am a big fan (from afar) of Kaggle, mainly because of my training. One of my hardest but most fun classes when I was an engineering graduate student was a class in building mathematical models, which is what we called data science back in the day.
You can read my article, posted today to Slashdot/BI here, and see five of my favorite contests.
