Updated on January 4,, 2017.

You think that all the interesting competitions are  taking place on Kaggle. But whether you are a participant interested in winning an award, or an organization interested in posting a competition, there are a few alternatives, including Data Science Central. Check out our list of challenges below.

Our first competition attracted high caliber professionals from organizations such as IBM and two winners, yet was rejected when we posted it on Kaggle, just like all our submitted competitions. We are not complaining about  Kaggle's censorship - they do whatever they want to do - just saying that there are other opportunities for you. 

So why not promoting your competition with us? It is free: just post it here, and you might end up hiring one of the winners. And check out this link if you are interested in other free opportunities on DSC.

Here are some of our previous competitions. Starred ones are associated with an award (at least $1,000). 

Challenges of the week

• Challenge of the week - Infinite Products
• Challenge of the week - Data Videos with R
• Challenge of the week - Tough math question about correlations
• Challenge of the week - Interesting Recursive Formula
• Challenge of the week - identifying patterns in complex time series
• Challenge of the week - Predicting records (highs or lows)
• Challenge of the week - Mathematical paradox, $500,000 award *
• Challenge of the week - Detecting multiple periodicity in time series
• Challenge of the week - Survival analysis
• Challenge of the week - Finding similar images and graphs
• Challenge of the week - Interesting quantities associated with Mark...
• Challenge of the week - Square root of two
• Challenge of the week - Modeling and explaining the law of series
• Challenge of the week - Time Series and Spatial Processes
• Challenge of the week - Zipf's Law
• Challenge of the week - High-Quality, Non-Periodic Random Number Ge...
• Challenge of the week - Piecewise linear clustering versus SVM
• Challenge of the week - Continued fractions for predictive modeling
• Challenge of the week - Breast Cancer
• Challenge of the week - Data Compression
• Challenge of the week - How many correlations are spurious?
• Challenge of the week - About the intricate structure of correlatio...
• Challenge of the week - Measuring distance between two points (not ...

Other competitions

• Our first data science competition - checkout the winners and the a... *
• Write a data science research paper and win fame and award *
• Cracking the maths that make all financial transactions secure
• How to detect spurious correlations (read section 5 and 6 of this a...
• Real-time experimental design (A/B testing) *

In addition, I invite you to check out our project list for candidates in our data science apprenticeship: these are interesting, applied and research projects.

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Additional Reading

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• How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real ones
• 17 short tutorials all data scientists should read (and practice)
• 10 types of data scientists
• 66 job interview questions for data scientists

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