Data Science for Good Kaggle Competition: CareerVillage.org, Sponsored by Homi

The second Data Science Minneapolis event will be a collaborative effort to work on the Kaggle Competition for CareerVillage.org. This event is sponsored by Homi and will be located at their HQ office, feel free to work from elsewhere. The offices will close for the evening and will re-open the next morning, feel free to continue work with your groups in another location even when not at the Homi offices.

Spots are limited, please attempt to attend in person and contribute to group work or be willing to learn. If you know you can't attend, please allow others to RSVP in your place.

Agenda:
Saturday 4/13

• 9am: Opening remarks, Welcome to Homi - Phil Xiao
• 9:30am: Find groups to divide and conquer aspects of work
• 10am: Download the data and work/collaborate!

Sunday 4/14

• 5pm: Closing remarks

Notes:

• Mentors will be available to answer questions.
• There will be an effort to reconvene at a cadence to ask questions, get help from other groups, and to get questions answered by mentors
• More details to come!

More information about the specific Kaggle Competition for Career Village:

In this competition you'll notice there isn't a leaderboard, and you are not required to develop a predictive model. This isn't a traditional supervised Kaggle machine learning competition.

CareerVillage.org is a nonprofit that crowdsources career advice for underserved youth. Founded in 2011 in four classrooms in New York City, the platform has now served career advice from 25,000 volunteer professionals to over 3.5M online learners. The platform uses a Q&A style similar to StackOverflow or Quora to provide students with answers to any question about any career.

In this Data Science for Good challenge, CareerVillage.org, in partnership with Google.org, is inviting you to help recommend questions to appropriate volunteers. To support this challenge, CareerVillage.org has supplied five years of data.