Technical posts

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.

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 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.

People have been a little reticent to start digging in to the Millenium Development Goals challenge. We thought a little sample code might help get things started. Here's an IPython notebook that should get get you from zero to submission in a few minutes.