Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Contest 56
John Snodgrass writes "Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix, has announced on the Netflix Prize Forums that they are planning to hold a new data mining competition. The second competition will have some twists and is expected to be shorter in duration. It will feature two grand prizes, to be awarded in a 6 and 18 month time frame. A previous competitor still active on the board has already dubbed it: 'The Sparse Matrix: Reordered' and 'The Sparse Matrix: Factorizations.'"
Re:Contests (Score:4, Funny)
Why do tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work just for the chance that you might get payed? It seems absurd.
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The Need for This Contest (Score:5, Funny)