Blog

Tue 08 August 2017

Now live: a new kind of data challenge

Just this week we launched a new $100,000 challenge where competition-tested algorithms are just the beginning.

Fri 28 April 2017

Random Walk of the Penguins - Benchmark

Penguins are so adorable! Here's our first pass at predicting penguin populations in Antarctica.

Fri 23 December 2016

DengAI: Predicting Disease Spread - Benchmark

We're launching a new competition to forecast the spread of dengue.

Wed 21 December 2016

Why Elections Are a Terrible Showcase for Data Science

The 2016 election was a bad showcase for the powers of data science.

Tue 20 December 2016

Trying to Get It Right when Everyone was Wrong

The best we can do with the polls.

Thu 13 October 2016

America's Next Top (Statistical) Model - Benchmark

We're launching a new competition for forecasting the 2016 presidential election.

Mon 10 October 2016

Meet the winners of the safe aging challenge

See how DrivenData's Top Modelers managed to predict activities from sensor data

Thu 21 July 2016

SciPy 2016: "Data Science is Software" tutorial

Video footage of Peter and Isaac from their pilgrimage to SciPy 2016

Tue 19 July 2016

Visualizing a Future for Fog Nets

Meet the folks who used their data visualization and modeling skills to help Dar Si Hamd!

Mon 06 June 2016

There's no place like $HOME

We're launching a new competition for safe aging at home generously sponsored by AARP Foundation

Tue 19 April 2016

Building the best naïve bees classifier!

These are the people who were best able to distinguish honeybees from bumblebees and how they did it.

Tue 01 March 2016

Cloudy with a chance of models

We're excited to launch a new competition with our partner Dar Si Hmad and sponsor Tableau Foundation.

Fri 06 November 2015

Announcing the results of our Keeping It Fresh competition

See who kept it the freshest — meet the winners of the Keeping It Fresh competition.

Thu 24 September 2015

Bumble bee or honey bee?

We're excited to launch a new comeptition with our partner Metis. The question at hand is: can you identify a bee as a honey bee or a bumble bee?

Tue 11 August 2015

An interview with "Countable Care" winner Gilberto Titericz Jr.

We got a chance to hear from Gilberto Titericz Jr., our Countable Care 1st place finisher. He answered some of our questions about himself, the competition, and data science in general.

Thu 07 May 2015

From raw Yelp reviews to a model of hygiene violations (in 3 easy steps)

We were so excited about our new civic innovation competition we couldn't help but get started ourselves! The goal for this competition is to use data from Yelp restaurant reviews to narrow the search for health code violations in Boston. Competitors will have access to historical hygiene violation records from the City of Boston — a leader in open government data — and Yelp's consumer reviews. The challenge: Figure out the words, phrases, ratings, and patterns that predict violations, and help public health inspectors do their job better.

Wed 29 April 2015

Help cities keep it fresh

Can you use the patterns, words, and phrases in Yelp reviews of restaurants to predict the number of hygeine violations that city health inspectors uncover?

Thu 19 March 2015

The Countable Care competition heats up

We're now about 2 weeks into the "Countable Care: Modeling Women's Health Care Decisions" competition, and things are heating up!

Thu 26 February 2015

An interview with "Box Plots for Education" winner Quoc Le

We recently got a chance to pick the brain of Quoc Le, our Box-Plots for Education 1st place finisher. He answered some of our questions about himself, the competition, and data science in general.

Wed 14 January 2015

Press coverage of "Box-Plots" results

The Boston tech press covers the successful completion of the ERS "Box-Plots for Education" challenge. Check out the article!