Kaggle

Kaggle
legal form	subsidiary
founding	April 2010
Seat	San Francisco , United States
management	Anthony Goldbloom (CEO); Ben Hamner (CTO); Jeff Moser (Chief Architect)
Branch	Data science
Website	www.kaggle.com

Kaggle is an online community aimed at data scientists . Kaggle is owned by Google LLC . The main purpose of Kaggle is to organize data science competitions. The range of applications has steadily increased over time. Today, Kaggle also enables users, among other things, to find and publish data sets, explore and create models in a web-based data science environment, and collaborate with other data scientists and machine learning engineers. Kaggle also offers a public data platform, a cloud-based workbench for data science, and a short form of AI education.

Areas of application in the field of big data , machine learning or data mining are, for example, AIDS research, awarding grades in schools, optimizing flight plans, determining flu waves and recognizing whale singing, as well as predicting the placements of the Eurovision song contest. The prize money for competitions sometimes reaches millions.

Kaggle was founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner.

On March 8, 2017, Google announced the acquisition of Kaggle.

In June 2017, Kaggle announced that it had more than 1,000,000 registered users.

Individual evidence

↑ Patrick Schwarz: Big Data Portal - Kaggle The Clairvoyant Competition - Article in the Handelsblatt, March 7th, 2014 .

↑ Thomas Fischermann and Götz Hamann: Who will raise the data gold? - Article at the time, 01/03/2013.

↑ Werner Pluta: Google buys data science platform Kaggle - Article at golem, March 8th, 2017 .

↑ Google is acquiring data science community Kaggle . Techcrunch . March 8, 2017. Archived from the original on March 9, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017: "Sources tell us that Google is acquiring Kaggle [...] the official announcement could come as early as tomorrow."

↑ Google buys Kaggle and its gaggle of AI geeks (en) . In: CNET , March 8, 2017.

↑ Anthony Goldbloom: We've passed 1 million members - Announcement on the Kaggle homepage, 06/06/2017.

[1] Patrick Schwarz: Big Data Portal - Kaggle The Clairvoyant Competition - Article in the Handelsblatt, March 7th, 2014 .

[2] Thomas Fischermann and Götz Hamann: Who will raise the data gold? - Article at the time, 01/03/2013.

[3] Werner Pluta: Google buys data science platform Kaggle - Article at golem, March 8th, 2017 .

[TechCrunch_Lardinois-4] Google is acquiring data science community Kaggle . Techcrunch . March 8, 2017. Archived from the original on March 9, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017: "Sources tell us that Google is acquiring Kaggle [...] the official announcement could come as early as tomorrow."

[5] Google buys Kaggle and its gaggle of AI geeks (en) . In: CNET , March 8, 2017.

[6] Anthony Goldbloom: We've passed 1 million members - Announcement on the Kaggle homepage, 06/06/2017.