Minne*Data: The Adventures of a Minnesota Team in Kaggle Land.
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Minne*Data is David Quimby, Dave Mathias, Joe Hanrahan, and David Radcliffe. We participated as a team in the recent Kaggle competition -- Data Science Bowl 2018. The competition was an image analysis / object detection challenge in deep learning -- "identify nuclei in divergent images to advance medical discovery".
Full disclosure: We weren't a serious threat to the leaderboard and the seasoned winners who shared $100,000 in prizes, but we took a semi-deep dive into deep learning. We'll share our approach and the various directions that we explored; what we learned and what we'll do differently "next time".