This is the kickoff for a Big Data competition that will end in October, 2012. Winner will be announced at the Big Data unConference on October 13.

(COMPETITION CLOSES:Saturday, 10/6/2012, 6pm PST )

COMPETITION: Which person or team can develop the best prediction of the product on the Best Buy mobile web site a visitor would be most interested in? This competition will be set up using the www.Kaggle.com web site, making data science a sport.

CHALLENGE CHARACTERISTICS:

Two years of mobile behavior, 67 million clicks, 27 million searches, 8 million users, 1 million products

You can enter one or both competitions:

Cloud computing sized problem
PC sized problem (a sample of the cloud sized problem)
ANALYSIS APPROACHES:

You may find useful material in the chapter 16 of the

2012 book “Scaling Up Machine Learning” or

GraphLab SVD, Vowpal Wabbit, Mahout, MADlib

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering#Model-based