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There's no place like $HOME
We're launching a new competition for safe aging at home generously sponsored by AARP Foundation
Cloudy with a chance of models
We're excited to launch a new competition with our partner Dar Si Hmad and sponsor Tableau Foundation.
Bumble bee or honey bee?
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?
From raw Yelp reviews to a model of hygiene violations (in 3 easy steps)
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.
Getting started with the Millennium Development Goals challenge
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.
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