Should be on your radar, if it's not already Opportunity to apply skills to areas outside your day-to-day activities Can peek over people's shoulders Kernals preserve the work that people have already done Easy way to quickly see how an approach is implemented in practice It's an excellent source for unique datasets
Data science, gameified You can win $ (hypothetically) Recruitment Research Kiva competition (ongoing) Malware classification (3 yrs ago) American Epilepsy Society's Seizure Prediction using EEG Rankings & Tiers Complete your profile: Novice, Contributor Win some medals, discuss content: Expert Be more baller than 'Experts': Master, Grandmaster
Kaggle docker images Come pre-loaded with popular libraries All of CRAN Plus, development versions of other packages: rstan, h2o, among others Can run Jupyter notebooks using either Python or R, executing code in cells Or draft scripts Version control is baked in 17 gigs of RAM, ? CPU, 55mb~ storage space, operations time out after 2 hours
Kaggle hosts job listings from companies that want to advertise positions to its userbase No experience applying through one, but would be curious to hear about people's experience Can see how many people have looked at a posting at a given time, kind of interesting? Would guess that companies advertising might have a better grasp on their needs? Maybe preferable to recruiters contacting you?
You can get points for uploading data that people think is cool Weird, interesting, great for side projects and curious folks Has an API? $ kaggle datasets download -d mobile-phone-activity Install the python client via GitHub Google BigQuery for big data (using a python client) E.g. BitCoin Blockchain, or Hacker News posts (14 gigs) Highlights: NYC Noise complaints dataset Scripts and information about every episode of Seinfeld Four Shapes (useful for beginners who want to start looking at image classification) No comments on this! Someone make me a tutorial for me to upvote!
Other platforms for crowd-sourced data science? Help me be less wrong on the internet: github: @mooreaw twitter: @theysayHeyDrew Blog A2MADS slack: @andrew Thanks!