The kaggle contest mentioned in previous posts has now finished, and a winner has been announced (see below).
Over 600 people downloaded the Parkinson's data.
In my view this has been a great success.
MJFF are to be congratulated.
Quote:
"Machine Learning Approach" To Smartphone Data Garners $10,000 First Prize In The Michael J. Fox Foundation Parkinson's Data Challenge
NEW YORK, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers from LIONsolver, Inc. have won first prize in The Michael J. Fox Foundation's $10,000 Parkinson's Data Challenge, a contest leveraging "the wisdom of the crowd" to benefit people with Parkinson's disease (PD).
The contest received an enthusiastic response from the scientific community — the winning entry was chosen following more than 630 downloads of the dataset from teams in 21 countries.
The LIONsolver team's winning entry provided proof of concept for a "machine learning approach" that could unveil clues to PD onset and progression embedded in data collected on smartphones.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...e0+PRN20130424
John