Data on penguin populations are limited primarily due to the fact that most monitored colonies are nearby permanent research stations. This means that any remote populations are essentially ignored during planning processes. Your goal is to create better models to ...
Can you predict whether a donor will return to donate blood given their donation history? Good data-driven systems for predicting donations and supply needs can improve the entire supply chain, making sure that more patients get the blood transfusions they ...
The UN's Millennium Development Goals provide the big-picture perspective on international development. We can use these indicators to help understand where to focus development resources. Should we invest more in education? Healthcare? Clean drinking water? Access to capital? Using ...
Can you predict which water pumps are faulty? Using data from Taarifa and the Tanzanian Ministry of Water, can you predict which waterpoints are functional, which need some repairs, and which don't work at all? This is an intermediate-level ...
Using environmental data collected by various U.S. Federal Government agencies—from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce—can you predict the number of dengue ...
We're rebooting our first prized competition for fun and education! Budgets for schools and school districts are huge, complex, and unwieldy. It's no easy task to digest where and how schools are using their resources. Education Resource Strategies ...
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? In this challenge, you'll predict the percent of ...
Contribute to open, cutting-edge research on the use of wearables in promoting health and independence for seniors. Passive monitoring can help detect when something is wrong, all while maintaining privacy, independence, and safe living in the home.
Your challenge is to develop a model that will predict the yield of Dar Si Hmad's fog nets for every day during an evaluation period, using historical data about meteorological conditions and the fog net installations. Accurate predictions will ...
Metis wants to know: can you identify a bee as a honey bee or a bumble bee? These bees have different behaviors and appearances, but given the variety of backgrounds, positions, and image resolutions it can be a challenge for ...
The City of Boston regularly inspects every restaurant to monitor and improve food safety and public health. As in most cities, health inspections are generally random, which can increase time spent on spot checks at clean restaurants that have been ...
Recent literature suggests that the demand for women’s health care will grow over 6% by 2020. Given how rapidly the health landscape has been changing over the last 15 years, it’s increasingly important that we understand how these ...
Budgets for schools and school districts are huge, complex, and unwieldy. It's no easy task to digest where and how schools are using their resources. Education Resource Strategies is a non-profit that tackles just this task with the goal ...
