DrivenData blog

DrivenData, in partnership with Yelp and Harvard, and with support from the City of Boston, structured a predictive challenge to tie Yelp reviews and ratings with the results of Boston's food safety inspections.

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

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

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

The best we can do with the polls.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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