Kaggle: playing the data game

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- - Kaggle: playing the data game
  - 24/04/2012
  - Ashley Mauritzen
Turning the complex and overwhelming into a game
gadl, Creative commons (2012) ©

Scope
The open data platform Kaggle uses advanced crowdsourcing techniques to solve complex problems by hosting data prediction competitions. Its popularity with brands and 'players' alike presents one of the most convincing arguments yet for opening up data to as wide an audience as possible.

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Industry Technology

Location Global

Keywords Open Data Self & System Crowdsourcing Collaborative Living Being+ Life as an Enterprise Gamification Play Prediction Incentive

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