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Expert Panel / Special Focus Area
Panel title: Lessons learned from contests in data mining

Description: Panelists who have extensive experience winning or organizing competitions in data mining will discuss questions such as the following:

  • What has the research community learned from data mining contests?
  • What are the most important privacy concerns going forward?
  • How can contests be designed to maximize the benefits for sponsors participants, the research community, and all others concerned?

Confirmed participants (in alphabetical order):

  • Charles Elkan (UC San Diego, organizer)
  • Jeremy Howard (Kaggle)
  • Yehuda Koren (Yahoo)
  • Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research)
  • Claudia Perlich (Media6Degrees)
Plenary session on Wednesday August 24, 2011, from 1:30pm to 2:45pm.

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