Competitions

Using environmental data collected by U.S. Federal Government agencies, can you predict the number of dengue fever cases reported each week in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Iquitos, Peru?

We're rebooting our first prized competition for fun and education! Tag school budgets automatically to help districts get a better grasp of their spending and how to improve the impact of their scarce resources.

The UN's Millennium Development Goals provide the big-picture perspective on international development. Using indicators aggregated and collected by the World Bank, try to predict progress towards select MDGs.

Can you predict whether a donor will return to donate blood given their donation history? This is the smallest, least complex dataset on DrivenData, and a great place to dive into the world of data science competitions.

Can you predict which water pumps are faulty to promote access to clean, potable water across Tanzania? This is an intermediate-level practice competition.

Flexibility can be defined as “the ability of a resource, whether any component or collection of components of the power system, to respond to the known and unknown changes of power system conditions at various operational timescales”. The exploitation of ...

The building systems may fail to meet the performance expectations due to various faults. Poorly maintained, degraded, and improperly controlled equipment wastes an estimated 15% to 30% of energy used in commercial buildings. Therefore, it is of great potential to ...

Building energy forecasting has gained momentum with the increase of building energy efficiency research and solution development. Indeed, forecasting the global energy consumption of a building can play a pivotal role in the operations of the building. It provides an ...

Measuring poverty is hard. Build algorithms from survey data to identify useful poverty indicators, simplify surveys and help The World bank put an end extreme poverty in our generation.

Chimp&See has collected nearly 8,000 hours of footage reflecting chimpanzee habitats from camera traps across Africa. Your challenge is to build a model that identifies the wildlife in these videos.

Support sustainable fisheries by building tools for automating how catches are audited with on-board video.

Model penguin populations for hard-to-reach sites in the Antarctic! Better models can support the long-term management of these species and understanding of how their ecosystem is being impacted.

US presidential elections come but once every 4 years, and this one's a big one. There are lots of people trying to predict what will happen. Can you top them?

Contribute to open, cutting-edge research on the use of wearables in promoting health and independence for seniors.

Predict the yield of water-collecting fog nets in Southwest Morocco. Accurate predictions can improve collection efforts and enable greater access to fresh water throughout the year.

Can you identify a bee as a honey bee or a bumble bee? Practice image processing and classification techniques and help researchers seeking to protect pollinators from collapse.

Use Yelp reviews to predict health risks at Boston restaurants. The information in these reviews has the potential to improve the City’s health inspection efforts, and could transform the way inspections are targeted.

Can you predict what drives women’s health care decisions in America? In an uncertain health landscape, this survey modeling challenge can help illuminate what care people receive, where they go, and how they pay.

Tag school budgets automatically to help districts get a better grasp of their spending and how to improve the impact of their scarce resources.