[P2P-F] Funds Pool
Michel Bauwens
michel at p2pfoundation.net
Sun Nov 6 08:15:34 CET 2011
thanks Thomas!!
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com>wrote:
> FYI
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> A Site for Data Scientists to Prove Their Skills and Make Money
> http://j.mp/vFIWpZ (New York Times)
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> "Organizations from airlines to insurance companies to hospitals are
> trying to figure out how to corral all their data and turn it into
> something useful. Kaggle, a start-up, has figured out a way to
> connect these companies with the mathematicians and scientists who
> crunch numbers for a living or a hobby. On Thursday, it announced it
> had raised $11 million from investors including Khosla Ventures, Index
> Ventures and Hal Varian, Google's chief economist. "We're really
> making big data into a sport," said Anthony Goldbloom, Kaggle's
> founder."
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