[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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