It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle, a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it’s not selling anything, ...

Jeremy Howard is not a data scientist. Except that, well, he is. At the University of Melbourne, he studied philosophy. Then he tackled the metaphysics of business operations, spending the better part ...

The technology industry loves its laws. There's Moore's Law of processing power, Metcalfe's Law of networks, and Gilder's Law about bandwidth. And then there's Joy's Law, a more obscure truism named ...

Google has today announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco that it has acquired Kaggle, a notably large online community for data science. The service allows data scientists to hold and ...

Kaggle lets organizations such as companies and governments, which have big questions and mountains of relevant data, to post their data and problems to the site, then stage a competition to see who ...

Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications. Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s ...

In 2011 I got a phone call from an Australian founder, Anthony Goldbloom, who wanted to hear my story and opinion regarding the competition space and crowdsourcing platforms. At the time, I was ...

Kaggle---the San Francisco startup that has spent the past five years trying to push hardcore data science across the business world---has cut about a third of its staff as it tries to find new ways ...

In its quest to carry us into the machine-learning decades ahead, Google acquires what it calls the globe's largest community of AI enthusiasts. Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing ...