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Throwback to our "Hateful Memes" challenge where teams detected harmful content combining text and images. Critical work for online safety! 🛡️💻 #ContentModeration #AI drivendata.org/competitions/64/

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Hot topic in #DataScience: Multi-modal learning is bridging text, images, and audio. Our blog explores practical applications beyond the hype! 🎭🔗 #MultiModal #AI drivendata.co/blog.html

DrivenData Labs DrivenData helps mission-driven organizations harness their data to work smarter and offer more impactful services using data science, machine learning, and AI.

Our latest blog dives into "Causal Inference for Data Scientists" - moving beyond correlation to understand what actually drives outcomes! 🔗💡 #CausalInference #DataScience drivendata.co/blog.html

Pri-matrix Factorization Data scientists from more than 90 countries around the world drew on 300,000 video clips in a competition to build the best machine learning models for identifying wildlife from camera trap footage. …

Ever wonder how AI helps track endangered species? Our "Pri-matrix Factorization" competition used camera trap data to identify primates in the wild! 🐒📷 #WildlifeConservation #ComputerVision drivendata.org/competitions/49/

Community Spotlight: Kirill Brodt The Community Spotlight features fantastic members from our DrivenData community. Kirill Brodt, a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Montreal, talks animation, pose estimation, and…

Community Spotlight: Kirill Brodt
The Community Spotlight features fantastic members from our DrivenData community. Kirill Brodt, a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Montreal, talks animation, pose estimation, and data science challenges.

DrivenData Labs DrivenData helps mission-driven organizations harness their data to work smarter and offer more impactful services using data science, machine learning, and AI.

Want to build ML systems that actually work in production? Download our free ebook "The 10 Rules of Reliable Data Science" and learn the essentials from our years of real-world experience. Game-changing insights await! 📊🔬 #DataScience #MachineLearning

Open AI Caribbean Challenge: Mapping Disaster Risk from Aerial Imagery Can you predict the roof material of buildings from drone imagery? Leverage aerial imagery in St. Lucia, Guatemala, and Colombia to more accurately map disaster risk at scale.

Check out our "Open AI Caribbean Challenge" winners! Teams used satellite imagery to map building footprints for disaster preparedness. Amazing work applying #ComputerVision to humanitarian needs! 🛰️🏠 #DataForGood drivendata.org/competitions/58/

📢 We're Hiring: Child Speech Transcriber (Remote, Part-Time)
Join DrivenData in making speech technology more accessible for children! We're looking for a Child Speech Orthographic Transcriber to help advance Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for young learners.
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DrivenData Labs DrivenData helps mission-driven organizations harness their data to work smarter and offer more impactful services using data science, machine learning, and AI.

Why do "accurate" models fail in production? Our blog posts dive into better evaluation metrics for real-world ML applications. Essential reading! 📊🧠 #DataScience #MLOps drivendata.co/blog.html

Power Laws: Optimizing Demand-side Strategies Storage is critical to flexible and reliable access to renewable energy sources. In this challenge, competitors combined traditional optimization methods and machine learning to build algorithms for…

Looking for time series forecasting inspiration? Check out the innovative approaches from our "Power Laws" competition where teams predicted electricity demand across multiple regions! ⚡📈 #DataScience #TimeSeries drivendata.org/competitions/53/

NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract Iteration - NASA NASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service

🚀 Stellar news: DrivenData is excited to be selected as one of NASA’s newest open innovation contract awardees!
We’re proud to push the boundaries of crowdsourced science & AI innovation to help solve NASA’s toughest challenges & to work alongside this amazing community.

Zamba Cloud

BIG NEWS! 📸 Zamba Cloud now supports camera trap IMAGES! Our wildlife AI recognizes 178 taxa with automatic bounding boxes. Try it at www.zambacloud.com or check our Python library: github.com/drivendataor... #WildlifeConservation #AIforGood

GitHub - drivendataorg/zamba: A Python package for identifying hundreds of kinds of animals, training custom models, and estimating distance from camera trap videos and images A Python package for identifying hundreds of kinds of animals, training custom models, and estimating distance from camera trap videos and images - drivendataorg/zamba

🧠 Zamba Cloud's new image support uses deep learning to detect & classify 178 wildlife taxa. Built on 15M+ annotations from @LILAscience datasets. Customize with transfer learning! Check out our Python library: github.com/drivendataor... #MachineLearning #ComputerVision

Zamba Cloud

Every hour spent manually sorting camera trap images is time NOT spent on conservation action. 🌍 Zamba Cloud now automates wildlife ID for BOTH videos & images, giving researchers their time back. www.zambacloud.com #ConservationTech #BiodiversityProtection 🦏

Zamba Cloud

You don't need to be a coder to use AI for wildlife research! 💻➡️🚫 With Zamba Cloud's new image support, simply upload photos, get species IDs, and even train custom models—all without writing a single line of code. www.zambacloud.com #WildlifeResearch

Zamba Cloud

You don't need to be a coder to use AI for wildlife research! 💻➡️🚫 With Zamba Cloud's new image support, simply upload photos, get species IDs, and even train custom models—all without writing a single line of code. www.zambacloud.com #WildlifeResearch

Zamba Cloud

BEFORE: Spend weeks manually reviewing 10,000 camera trap photos
AFTER: Upload to Zamba Cloud, grab coffee, get results ☕

Our wildlife ID system now works for images too! www.zambacloud.com #ResearchEfficiency #WildlifeMonitoring 📊🐾

Zamba Cloud

What's "fine-tuning"? 🧐 It's like teaching Zamba Cloud to recognize YOUR local animals! Upload labeled examples & our AI learns what matters in YOUR ecosystem. Now available for images too! www.zambacloud.com #AIforConservation #MachineLearning 🦁🌿

GitHub - drivendataorg/zamba: A Python package for identifying hundreds of kinds of animals, training custom models, and estimating distance from camera trap videos and images A Python package for identifying hundreds of kinds of animals, training custom models, and estimating distance from camera trap videos and images - drivendataorg/zamba

Calling all #conservation developers! 👩‍💻 Zamba Cloud's image support is powered by our open-source library. Want to customize? Contribute? Build your own tools? We've got you covered: github.com/drivendataor... #OpenSource #ConservationTech 🐯

DrivenData Labs DrivenData helps mission-driven organizations harness their data to work smarter and offer more impactful services using data science, machine learning, and AI.

😍 New DrivenData Labs data services site is LIVE! So much easier to find what we do and see our history of work. Come check it out (and let me know if you see any issues!). drivendata.co

We need LLM benchmarks with the same lessons we learned from ML challenges. Absolutely private test sets, submissions can only be selected based on public score, number of subs limited. Even with these, value decays over time.

(Tech) Infrastructure Week for the Nonprofit Sector This Good Tech Fest didn’t start for me with “Data science is bullsh*t, right?” like last year, but the 2025 edition was just as provocative. After the conference, I’ve been working to crystalize…

AI alone won't change the social sector. I put down a few thoughts spurred at #GTF2025 on what other infrastructure—technical and social—we need to make AI work. Let me know your thoughts! www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-i...

U.K. PETs Prize Challenge: Phase 3 (Red Teams) Help unlock the potential of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to combat global societal challenges. Test the privacy guarantees of blue teams' federated learning solutions.

The "On Cloud N" competition showcased amazing solutions for predicting nitrogen dioxide levels using satellite data. Browse the winning approaches to see how data science tackles air quality monitoring from space! 🛰️☁️ drivendata.org/competitions/142/competition-cloudnine/ #DataForGood

Tick Tick Bloom: Harmful Algal Bloom Detection Challenge Harmful algal blooms occur all around the world, and can harm people, their pets, and marine life. Use satellite imagery to detect dangerous concentrations of cyanobacteria, and help protect public…

Curious about ML for conservation? Check out the closed "Tick Tick Bloom" competition where data scientists predicted harmful algal blooms in lakes. See how winners combined satellite imagery and water quality data! 🌊🔬 drivendata.org/competitions/143/tick-tick-bloom/ #DataForGood

Zamba Cloud

Tracking elephants in Africa? 🐘 Monitoring wolves in Europe? 🐺 Studying jaguars in the Amazon? 🐆

Zamba Cloud now identifies wildlife in BOTH videos & images across 178 taxa. Try it today: www.zambacloud.com #WildlifeMonitoring #FieldResearch

Zamba Cloud

It took months of work, 15M+ annotations, and countless cups of coffee ☕ to bring image support to Zamba Cloud. Our team is thrilled to help conservation researchers worldwide identify wildlife faster! www.zambacloud.com #ConservationTech #AIforGood 🌍

What's Up, Docs? Document Summarization with LLMs Looking for a great way to start working with LLMs? See if you can summarize research papers from an open archive of the social sciences.

📢 New #Datachallenge alert:
Can you write abstracts for academic social science papers using a large language model that runs on your computer? OK, but can you do it well?
👋 This is a practice competition designed to be accessible to participants at all levels!

Open-source packages for using speech data in ML Overview of key open-source packages for extracting features from voice data to support ML applications

In this #blogpost, we provide an overview of open-source #Python packages for extracting features from speech audio data. If you want to use voice data for machine learning, but don't know the difference between the glottis and the larynx, this is for you!

Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge Use public Earth observation data to create a visualization that furthers the Sustainable Development Goals of zero hunger, clean water and sanitation, or climate action.

Remember our Pale Blue Dot Visualization Challenge? Creative approaches were used to predict wildfires and protect communities. Dive into the winning solutions and see how data science can combat this global challenge. #datachallenge #WildfirePrediction www.drivendata.org/competitions/256

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