Anthony Goldbloom
Founder and CEO of Kaggle.com
“In The Studio,” Kaggle’s Anthony Goldbloom Is Building A New Kind Of Marketplace
Anthony Goldbloom, founder and CEO of Kaggle, had the foresight years ago, while he was in his home country of Australia, to build a community of data scientists from around the world in one place online. At the time, he anticipated a world in which data science applied to the web would ... Read more »
How Kaggle Solves Big Problems With Big Data Contests
“When you’re working in the context of a competition, you try a few things and get to the top of a leaderboard and you’re pretty happy with yourself,” explains Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom. “Then someone else comes along and displaces you, so you need to try something else. ... Read more »
Kaggle: New Competition Wants Geniuses To Figure Out Algorithm To Grade High School Essays
Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder of Kaggle, told us how O'Leary cracked the code in a previous Kaggle competition to map dark matter and he did this in just a week. Although he ended up finishing fourth, O'Leary's efforts didn't go unrecognized. O'Leary tweeted about the experience: "Not ... Read more »
Kaggle's contests bet on data junkies need for fix
In April 2010, Australian economist Anthony Goldbloom decided to capitalize on that urge. He founded a company called Kaggle to help businesses of any size run Netflix-style competitions. Read more »
Contest Lets the Crowd Co-Found Your Startup
Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom. Image: Kaggle The cult of the founder tells us that great companies start when lone geniuses sweat through the night turning the world’s next great idea into code. But what if you could still start a company while someone else does the sweating ... Read more »
Big Data Gladiators Now Come Pre-Installed
Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom. Image: Kaggle Among the jobs that have shown the most resilience against the recession, few can match the data scientist. The job title is a bit of a misnomer, since what companies are really looking for are in-house Nate Silvers : people who can ... Read more »
Big Data Gladiators Now Come Pre-Installed
Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom. Image: Kaggle Among the jobs that have shown the most resilience against the recession, few can match the data scientist. The job title is a bit of a misnomer, since what companies are really looking for are in-house Nate Silvers : people who can ... Read more »
World's Top Data Scientists Open Doors To Big-Cash Contests ...
This is the first time a company is letting Kaggle talk about the nature of its private competition, says Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom. “In many cases competitions are private because companies don’t want to talk about the kinds of problems that are commercially interesting.” Only ... Read more »
San Francisco startup make data science a sport
The data problems that need solving are so important that those who find the solutions should be paid like professional athletes, said Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom. By turning data-mining into a crowdsourced contest, he hopes he's created a way to make that happen. Already one of ... Read more »
Creating Big Data's Talent Mart
“It’s a way to get them into companies and solving problems,” said Anthony Goldbloom, the chief executive of Kaggle. “It should also be good for our business. Right now we attract people who are in the competitions for love. If this generates more money, it will attract more people.” ... Read more »
Data Science Is Now a Job Market Based Entirely on Merit
My guest today is Anthony Goldbloom, founder and CEO of Kaggle, which describes itself as “the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete with each other to solve complex data science problems, and the top competitors win interesting projects from some of the world’s ... Read more »
Kaggle Aims To Connect Companies With Successful Data Scientists
“We’ve discovered that most problems that companies have aren’t yet defined to the point where we can optimize algorithms,” Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom told me. “They’re really just going for a first shot at it.” To help those customers, what Kaggle Connect does is provide companies ... Read more »
Greenplum and Kaggle launch big data matchmaking service
And that community is growing fast — when Kaggle started fundraising in August, there were 11,000 members, now there are close to 60,000, said Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, who said this is the first such vendor partnership Kaggle has done. ( GigaOM has worked with Kaggle and Splunk ... Read more »
PandoList: Australian Entrepreneurs
Anthony Goldbloom enjoys the luxury of pastimes like kite surfing, roller blading, and live music, and her gets to have it all in the Valley. This just doesn't seem fair. As a fresh graduate from the University of Melbourne, Goldbloom's first job out of college in 2007 was to ... Read more »
How Kaggle Is Changing How We Work
"The level of accuracy increases, and they all tend to converge on the same solution," explains Anthony Goldbloom, Kaggle's co-founder and CEO. Companies as varied as MasterCard, Pfizer, Allstate, and Facebook (not to mention NASA) have all created competitions. GE sponsored a contest ... Read more »
Kaggle Winners Tapped As Data Analytics Consultants
"If you subscribe to this service, you can add a world-class expert on time-series forecasting to your team," Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom tells InformationWeek. What's more, customers can examine the track record of these experts in public competitions involving similar ... Read more »
Kaggle’s algorithms show machines are getting too good at judging humans
I caught up with the company’s founder and CEO, Anthony Goldbloom, to find out more about recent data-driven discoveries that have rocked the boat. Goal: To get the computer to give an essay the same score a human grader would. The idea was that by analyzing spelling and punctuation, as ... Read more »
Founders Den Demo Day Part Deux: 14 Startups Come Out Of Hibernation
“The argument is that there is a mismatch between those with data and those that have the skills to analyze it,” says founder Anthony Goldbloom, “To solve this Kaggle holds competitions for data scientists to build predictive algorithms. Goldboom says that a problem that had alluded NASA ... Read more »
Index And Khosla Lead $11M Round In Kaggle, A Platform For ...
As Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom tells me, ... Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling and analytics competitions. Companies and researchers post their data. Read more »
Incentive prizes: Healthy competition
Interestingly, the amount of money on offer does not seem to correlate with the number of entrants, according to Anthony Goldbloom, Kaggle's boss ... Read more »
