Hearst Challenge Update

Here is the latest on Hearst Challenge:

600+ teams now registered

we have moved the date when the final evaluation dataset will be available to December 1.

There was some controversy last night, when the current leader decided to hang up his boots and  posted his code for the world to see.  On one hand it is correct that sharing the knowledge leads to  the development of a superior model, but  if you take the thought to the  other extreme -- it would not be much of a competition if every team was required to share its  code and methodology  with all the participants.  In balance, given the short duration of the competition, I wish the code was not posted.  Anyway, it is  water under the bridge and the show goes on --- :)

-- Datamining_guy