1. Kaggle in 3 key offerings Competitive Analytics On Kaggle’s online platform companies can post data analysis challenges. The host provides all the necessary data and a description of the problem. Every challenge is assigned a prize pool and a deadline. Using the power of their entire community of data scientists, Kaggle helps companies to anonymize data, design, frame and run a data competition as well ass integrate the winning model into their operations. 2. On which trends does this company focus? • Crowdsourcing • Open Source • Big Data • Connect with experts Facts • +140.000 data scientists (+100 countries) compete against each other on the platform, • Price pools range from $0 to $1 million per challenge • ‘Kaggle in Class’ hosts free projects for hundreds of universities around the globe. Kaggle is an online platform where companies can post data analysis challenges for predictive modeling and analysis. In addition, the platform serves as a online community for statisticians and data miners from all over the world. concept mapping by www.kaggle.com HQ Industry to learn from Founded Research & Eduction 2010 • Due to the openness of the challenges, it’s hard to cover sensitive datasets. Private challenges, where every participant is background checked and subject to an NDA, are one of Kaggle’s solutions to this problem. 3. Does it bring people out of their comfort zone? US San Francisco, US Why Innovative? Key Info Consulting Platform Ensemble Techniques Kaggle is introducing big data into the energy industry, allowing E&P companies to increase production while minimizing costs. Ensemble techniques are more powerful than the standard univariate and multivariate approaches Q316VV