In this 5 Minute Analysis we'll preprocess, join, and explore disjoint sales data for retail locations. Then we’ll dive into the relation between store type, fuel prices, and weekly sales as well as prepare the data for easy loading into Business Analysis tools such as Tableau and PowerBI. Finally, we’ll explore and analyze our preprocessed and joined data in Tableau and use its powerful visualizations to draw…

In this 5 Minute Analysis we'll focus on accessing and understanding the Kaggle LA Restaurant & Market Health Data in real-time, exploring the data, and pivoting the data to report the top violators of the health code and their violations.…

Summary:  There are several approaches to reducing the cost of training data for AI, one of which is to get it for free.  Here are some excellent sources.

Recently we wrote that training data (not just data in general) is the new oil.  It’s the difficulty…

Kaggle is an AirBnB for Data Scientists – this is where they spend their nights and weekends. It’s a crowd-sourced platform to attract, nurture, train and challenge data scientists from all around the world to solve data science and predictive analytics problems through machine learning. It has over 536,000 active members from 194 countries and it receives close to 150,000 submissions per month. Started from Melbourne, Australia Kaggle moved to Silicon Valley in 2011, raised some 11…

After much anticipation the Melbourne-University AES-MathWorks-NIH Seizure Prediction Challenge has launched on Kaggle.com!

Enter for your chance to win part of the US$20,000 prize pool and test your data science skills against the one-of-a-kind long-term human intracranial…

The Naked analyst Episode 9 looks at the best places for analytic competitions.

Here are my top 4 sites. They range from the the well known to some more specialist sites. There are 3 marketplaces I know of, and a 'world championship' currently running.

Kaggle

Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete with…