More on machine learning contests and datasets

Machine learning contests at kaggle
"Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions that allows organizations to post their data and have it scrutinized by the world's best data scientists"

Machine learning class

Machine learning class from Stanford, taught by Professor Andrew Ng. Online this semester, complete with homeworks and projects. I am hoping that it will be different from what I already know, and that it will be somewhat challenging, somewhat fun. I signed up. Here is the link.

Machine learning video lectures

Here is a link to a blog about machine learning videos online. I particularly like the first one.

Here is a link to the Stanford Linear Dynamical Systems course, complete with videos on YouTube

Here is the link to SEE, Stanford's online courses.

Journal Rankings

TUBITAK has ranked the journals and divided them into A, B, C etc categories. I found it extremely useful. So much easier than looking for impact factors. Here is the link to the TUBITAK journal list.

Many thanks to this blog for the link.

Speaking of journal rankings, here is another link

Postdoc finds

Postdoc fellowships by CRA .

VideoLectures Recommender System Challenge

An interesting challenge to make video lecture recommendations based on the historical data from the VideoLectures.Net website. Prize is 5,500€. Here is the link to the challenge

SMS message classification, SPAM and legitimate

This should be a very interesting problem. Here is a link to a dataset of SMS messages that have been collected for mobile phone spam research.

Legitimate: MY NO. IN LUTON 0125698789 RING ME IF UR AROUND! H*
Spam: URGENT! Your Mobile No 07808726822 was awarded a L2,000 ...

Materials Identification Based on Passively Emitted Electromagnetic Radiation

I just encountered a new data mining competition featuring a $45,000 prize for materials identification. Here is the link: Materials Identification Based on Measurements of Passively Emitted Electromagnetic Radiation

I find this challenge very similar to the explosive detection project I am working on. We are detecting explosives (TNT etc.) from their hyperspectral signatures using differential spectrometry. More on it later.

Online product recommendations challenge

Overstock.com has a $1 million prize challenge for retail personalization. Who doesn't want to easily find relevant products from the millions available online? Here is the link

Search

Here are some great finds to search for papers in computer science:

1- IEEE
2- Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
3- Open access to e-prints
4- Computer science journals list in Wikipedia

Heritage Provider Network

is hosting a health prize. Ohh I am interested! I want to graduate ASAP, just so I can jump into any project such as this one! "The goal of the prize is to develop a predictive algorithm that can identify patients who will be admitted to the hospital within the next year, using historical claims data.". Here is the link: