Expert Panel / Special Focus Area
Panel title: Lessons learned from contests in data mining
Description: Panelists who have extensive experience winning or organizing competitions in data mining will discuss questions such as the following:
- What has the research community learned from data mining contests?
- What are the most important privacy concerns going forward?
- How can contests be designed to maximize the benefits for sponsors participants, the research community, and all others concerned?
Confirmed participants (in alphabetical order):
- Charles Elkan (UC San Diego, organizer)
- Jeremy Howard (Kaggle)
- Yehuda Koren (Yahoo)
- Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research)
- Claudia Perlich (Media6Degrees)
