This year's contest consists of two classification tasks based on an e-tailer's data of customers and non-customers. The first task is to maximize the AUC of binary classification on a test data set, given a fully labeled training data set. The second task is similar to task 1, but is on a boolean-transformed data set.

The VAST Challenge is a participation category of the IEEE VAST 2010 Symposium (part of VisWeek 2010). The VAST 2010 Challenge continues in the footsteps of the VAST 2009 Challenge, VAST 2008 Challenge and the 2007 and 2006 contests with the purpose of pushing the forefront of visual analytics tools using benchmark data sets and establishing a forum to advance visual analytics evaluation methods.

The awards for the top three papers will be 10,000 USD, 7,500 USD, 5,000 USD, respectively.

The winners will be awarded their prizes at ISE 25th Anniversary Celebrations, which will take place in December, 2010 in İstanbul. The author of the top-prize winning paper will present her/his paper in the presence of distinguished guests.

Data mining competition affiliated with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2010 (ICDM), Sydney, Australia, Dec 13-17. The task is to predict city traffic based on historical measurements or real-time stream of notifications sent by individual drivers from their GPS navigators. Prizes worth $5,000 or more will be awarded to the winners. The competition will start in the end of June.

The Omniture Web Analytics Competition OWAC is an event where student teams analyze an actual company's web site using Omniture's flagship software SiteCatalyst. After performing the analysis, teams then present their findings and recommendations to a panel of Omniture judges who in turn choose four teams to present at the competition's final event.

Prizes
•1st Place: $10,000

1. Purpose

The railroad operations are inherently complex/large scale and source of many challenging OR problems. This competition is designed to introduce participants to railroad problems, an exciting and challenging application area for Operations Research and Management Sciences.

2. Prizes

Prizes:

First Prize: $2500

Second Prize: $1500

Third Prize: $1000

This challenge addresses machine learning problems in which labeling data is expensive, but large amounts of unlabeled data are available at low cost. Such problems might be tackled from different angles: learning from unlabeled data or active learning.

The Analytics X Competition is an ongoing contest to apply analytics, modeling, and statistics to solve the social problems that affect our cities. It combines the fields of statistics, mathematics, and social science to understand the root causes of dysfunction in our neighborhoods.

KDD Cup 2010 - predict student performance on mathematical problems from logs of student interaction with Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Task description

The Objective

• The business Analytics Competition’s objectives are twofold:
1. As a global education organization, the focus is on education within the analytics community concerning methods of analysis, modeling, and data processing. This Challenge is geared towards teaching analytics techniques.