Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community for data scientists and machine learning practitioners under Google LLC . Kaggle enables users to find and publish datasets, explore and build models in a web-based data science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.
22-574: Kaggle was founded by Anthony Goldbloom in April 2010. Jeremy Howard , one of the first Kaggle users, joined in November 2010 and served as the President and Chief Scientist. Also on the team was Nicholas Gruen serving as the founding chair. In 2011, the company raised $ 12.5 million and Max Levchin became the chairman. On March 8, 2017, Fei-Fei Li , Chief Scientist at Google, announced that Google
44-578: A competition hosted by Merck . Vlad Mnih (one of Hinton's students) used deep neural networks to win a competition hosted by Adzuna . This resulted in the technique being taken up by others in the Kaggle community. Tianqi Chen from the University of Washington also used Kaggle to show the power of XGBoost , which has since replaced Random Forest as one of the main methods used to win Kaggle competitions. Several academic papers have been published on
66-464: A competition hosted by Merck . Vlad Mnih (one of Hinton's students) used deep neural networks to win a competition hosted by Adzuna . This resulted in the technique being taken up by others in the Kaggle community. Tianqi Chen from the University of Washington also used Kaggle to show the power of XGBoost , which has since replaced Random Forest as one of the main methods used to win Kaggle competitions. Several academic papers have been published on
88-481: A free tool for data science teachers to run academic machine-learning competitions. Kaggle also hosts recruiting competitions in which data scientists compete for a chance to interview at leading data science companies like Facebook , Winton Capital , and Walmart . Kaggle's competitions have resulted in successful projects such as furthering HIV research, chess ratings and traffic forecasting. Geoffrey Hinton and George Dahl used deep neural networks to win
110-477: A free tool for data science teachers to run academic machine-learning competitions. Kaggle also hosts recruiting competitions in which data scientists compete for a chance to interview at leading data science companies like Facebook , Winton Capital , and Walmart . Kaggle's competitions have resulted in successful projects such as furthering HIV research, chess ratings and traffic forecasting. Geoffrey Hinton and George Dahl used deep neural networks to win
132-854: A round led by Khosla Ventures and Index Ventures . Goldbloom has been cited by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 Under 30 in Technology, profiled by Fast Company as part of its 'Who's Next?' series and by the Sydney Morning Herald . Goldbloom has been quoted in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal, the Independent and has appeared on the Science Show Catalyst. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures
154-572: Is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups. Goldbloom was born in Melbourne , Australia , and holds a first-class honours degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Melbourne . During high school, Goldbloom represented Australia in sailing, competing in the 2001 World Championships in Sydney in the 29er class. Goldbloom began his career working in
176-484: Is achieved by meeting specific criteria in competitions, datasets, kernels (code-sharing), and discussions. The highest tier, Kaggle Grandmaster, is awarded to users who have ranked at the top of multiple competitions including high ranking in a solo team. As of May 28, 2024, out of 18.5 million Kaggle accounts, 2,745 have achieved Kaggle Master status and 530 have achieved Kaggle Grandmaster status. Anthony Goldbloom Anthony John Goldbloom (born 21 June 1983)
198-434: Is headquartered. Kaggle Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community for data scientists and machine learning practitioners under Google LLC . Kaggle enables users to find and publish datasets, explore and build models in a web-based data science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges. Kaggle
220-504: Is the founder and former CEO of Kaggle , a data science competition platform which has used predictive modelling competitions to solve data problems for companies, such as NASA , Misplaced Pages , Ford and Deloitte . Kaggle has operated across a range of fields, including mapping dark matter and HIV/AIDS research . Kaggle has received considerable media attention following news that it had received $ 11.25 million in Series A funding from
242-563: The basis of findings made in Kaggle competitions. A contributor to this is the live leaderboard, which encourages participants to continue innovating beyond existing best practices. The winning methods are frequently written on the Kaggle Winner's Blog. Kaggle has implemented a progression system to recognize and reward users based on their contributions and achievements within the platform. This system consists of five tiers: Novice, Contributor, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster. Each tier
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#1732801090715264-498: The basis of findings made in Kaggle competitions. A contributor to this is the live leaderboard, which encourages participants to continue innovating beyond existing best practices. The winning methods are frequently written on the Kaggle Winner's Blog. Kaggle has implemented a progression system to recognize and reward users based on their contributions and achievements within the platform. This system consists of five tiers: Novice, Contributor, Expert, Master, and Grandmaster. Each tier
286-466: The best models. Work is shared publicly through Kaggle Kernels to achieve a better benchmark and to inspire new ideas. Submissions can be made through Kaggle Kernels, via manual upload or using the Kaggle API . For most competitions, submissions are scored immediately (based on their predictive accuracy relative to a hidden solution file) and summarized on a live leaderboard. After the deadline passes,
308-407: The best models. Work is shared publicly through Kaggle Kernels to achieve a better benchmark and to inspire new ideas. Submissions can be made through Kaggle Kernels, via manual upload or using the Kaggle API . For most competitions, submissions are scored immediately (based on their predictive accuracy relative to a hidden solution file) and summarized on a live leaderboard. After the deadline passes,
330-559: The company was founded. Notable competitions include gesture recognition for Microsoft Kinect , making a football AI for Manchester City , coding a trading algorithm for Two Sigma Investments , and improving the search for the Higgs boson at CERN . The competition host prepares the data and a description of the problem; the host may choose whether it's going to be rewarded with money or be unpaid. Participants experiment with different techniques and compete against each other to produce
352-505: The company was founded. Notable competitions include gesture recognition for Microsoft Kinect , making a football AI for Manchester City , coding a trading algorithm for Two Sigma Investments , and improving the search for the Higgs boson at CERN . The competition host prepares the data and a description of the problem; the host may choose whether it's going to be rewarded with money or be unpaid. Participants experiment with different techniques and compete against each other to produce
374-422: The competition host pays the prize money in exchange for "a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free license [...] to use the winning Entry", i.e. the algorithm, software and related intellectual property developed, which is "non-exclusive unless otherwise specified". Alongside its public competitions, Kaggle also offers private competitions, which are limited to Kaggle's top participants. Kaggle offers
396-421: The competition host pays the prize money in exchange for "a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free license [...] to use the winning Entry", i.e. the algorithm, software and related intellectual property developed, which is "non-exclusive unless otherwise specified". Alongside its public competitions, Kaggle also offers private competitions, which are limited to Kaggle's top participants. Kaggle offers
418-634: The economic modeling unit of Australia's Department of Treasury and later spent time in the Research department at the Reserve Bank of Australia . He conceived of the idea behind Kaggle while working as an intern at The Economist in London, when he was asked to write an article on the emerging area of " big data ". Goldbloom lives with his wife in San Francisco , California , where Kaggle
440-547: Was acquiring Kaggle. In June 2017, Kaggle surpassed 1 million registered users, and as of October 2023, it has over 15 million users in 194 countries. In 2022, founders Goldbloom and Hamner stepped down from their positions and D. Sculley became the CEO . In February 2023, Kaggle introduced Models, allowing users to discover and use pre-trained models through deep integrations with the rest of Kaggle’s platform. Many machine-learning competitions have been run on Kaggle since
462-493: Was acquiring Kaggle. In June 2017, Kaggle surpassed 1 million registered users, and as of October 2023, it has over 15 million users in 194 countries. In 2022, founders Goldbloom and Hamner stepped down from their positions and D. Sculley became the CEO . In February 2023, Kaggle introduced Models, allowing users to discover and use pre-trained models through deep integrations with the rest of Kaggle’s platform. Many machine-learning competitions have been run on Kaggle since
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#1732801090715484-406: Was founded by Anthony Goldbloom in April 2010. Jeremy Howard , one of the first Kaggle users, joined in November 2010 and served as the President and Chief Scientist. Also on the team was Nicholas Gruen serving as the founding chair. In 2011, the company raised $ 12.5 million and Max Levchin became the chairman. On March 8, 2017, Fei-Fei Li , Chief Scientist at Google, announced that Google
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