Challenge & Prizes

Challenge & Prizes

THE CHALLENGE - MUSIC DATA SCIENCE HACKATHON, 21st of JULY 2012

“CAN YOU PREDICT IF A LISTENER WILL LOVE A NEW SONG?”

The Music Data Science Hackathon challenge will consist in developing an algorithm that predicts listener’s appreciation of songs and artists, based on listeners demographics, listeners words of appreciation, and interviews contained in the EMI Million Interview Dataset.

The winning predictive algorithm will be open-sourced to the data science community

To know more about the challenge, the rules and the dataset please visit:

Kaggle – EMI Music Data Science Hackathon competition page

PRIZES

Music Data Science Hackathon Prizes (sponsored by EMI and EMC)

1st Global Prize – £2,500

2nd Global Prize – £1,000

3rd Global Prize – £500

London Venue Prize – £2,000

Data Visualization Prize – £500 (sponsored by Adatis)

Participants in London venue are eligible for £5,000 in prizes (Global Competition and London Venue Competition prizes)

Other prizes and goodies for London Venue participants