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Data mining competition about predicting educational data (ends february 29th 2012)
Posted by:
webmasterphilfv
Date: November 30, 2011 06:56AM
Hello everyone
There is a new data mining competition with cash prizes (5000 $: 3,000 for first, $1,500 for second and $500 for third).
The competition ends Wednesday 29 February 2012.
Here are the details:
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<From Thomas Lotze thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx.com>
We at Grockit have just posted a new educational data mining
competition focused on analyzing student performance and figuring out
how to predict whether they can correctly answer future practice
questions: ( http://www.kaggle.com/c/WhatDoYouKnow ). We're very
excited to be reaching out to the data mining community to try to
improve outcomes for education, and we hope some of you will be
interested in taking part. Cash prizes will also be awarded to the top
three finishers. This a data set from students studying for the GMAT,
SAT, and ACT by answering practice questions at http://grockit.com --
we're hoping to find better ways of understanding students' abilities
and the areas of knowledge that can be tested using these (mainly
multiple-choice) questions. Using that, we hope to make our
assessment better and help students really improve their learning.
Almost 5,000,000 item responses (with 17 data fields each) are
included in the training set provided, covering responses from
>175,000 students working through 6,000+ questions. Details on the
dataset, the prizes, and the competition are all available at:
http://www.kaggle.com/c/WhatDoYouKnow
You are, of course, more than welcome to publish work based on your
techniques and results. Thanks for reading, and we hope you check it
out!
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2011 06:56AM by webmasterphilfv.
There is a new data mining competition with cash prizes (5000 $: 3,000 for first, $1,500 for second and $500 for third).
The competition ends Wednesday 29 February 2012.
Here are the details:
==================================================
<From Thomas Lotze thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx.com>
We at Grockit have just posted a new educational data mining
competition focused on analyzing student performance and figuring out
how to predict whether they can correctly answer future practice
questions: ( http://www.kaggle.com/c/WhatDoYouKnow ). We're very
excited to be reaching out to the data mining community to try to
improve outcomes for education, and we hope some of you will be
interested in taking part. Cash prizes will also be awarded to the top
three finishers. This a data set from students studying for the GMAT,
SAT, and ACT by answering practice questions at http://grockit.com --
we're hoping to find better ways of understanding students' abilities
and the areas of knowledge that can be tested using these (mainly
multiple-choice) questions. Using that, we hope to make our
assessment better and help students really improve their learning.
Almost 5,000,000 item responses (with 17 data fields each) are
included in the training set provided, covering responses from
>175,000 students working through 6,000+ questions. Details on the
dataset, the prizes, and the competition are all available at:
http://www.kaggle.com/c/WhatDoYouKnow
You are, of course, more than welcome to publish work based on your
techniques and results. Thanks for reading, and we hope you check it
out!
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2011 06:56AM by webmasterphilfv.