Category Archives: Data Science London

Music Data Hackathon


“Soulful” … “Catchy” … “Cool” … “Cheesy” … “Edgy” How do people connect to and describe the music they have just heard? EMI Insight performs extensive market research about their artists by interviewing thousands of people around the world. This research has produced EMI One Million Interview Dataset; one of the largest music preference datasets in the world today, that connects data about people–who they are, where they live, how they engage with music in their daily lives– with their [...]

First Global Data Hackathon!


24 hours of non-stop Data Science. It started in London but is taking over the world.   Data Science London in partnership with Big Data Week is organizing the first global data hackathon from 12 noon London Apr 28 to 12 noon London Apr 29 (UTC + 1).  The competition will be hosted on Kaggle, so anyone, from anywhere in the world, can participate.  You can download the data, hack along with the data scientists in London,  see your ranking on the [...]