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Turning Data Science Into a Spectator 'Sport' 19

vu1986 writes "Kaggle has a 'predictive-modeling competition platform that makes public the competitors in invite-only private competitions. Think of it like watching a major tournament in golf or tennis, where you can watch the best in the world shoot it out to see whose algorithms are king. Kaggle's tagline is "We're making data science a sport." Maybe now it can make data science a spectator sport.'"
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Turning Data Science Into a Spectator 'Sport'

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @03:54PM (#41316133)

    ...people who are fanatically devoted to one viewpoint, ignoring all evidence to the contractrary, and demonizing their opponent. Yeah, science needs to be more like sports.

    I hope the OP gets cancer and dies...

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