At midnight this morning, Kaggle began accepting submissions for the data hacking contest that we announced on Thursday. Hopefully you’ve used the last few days to build predictions for the test data set. Once you submit your predictions, you’ll be able to see your position on the leaderboard. ... [Read more...]

by John Myles White and Drew Conway Editors’ Note: One theme likely to recur on dataists.com is that data hackers love using their tools to analyze, visualize, and predict everything. Data hackers also love discovering and learning about new tools. So it should come as no surprise that Dataist ... [Read more...]