# Ideas for the Numenta Anomaly Benchmark Competition!

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608>\
**Category:** NAB\
**Created:** [May 27, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608 "2016-05-27T14:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![alavin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/alavin/32/144_2.png) [@alavin](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/alavin)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608/1 "2016-05-27T14:14:03Z")

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Hi all,  
If you have not yet heard we’re hosting a competition for the Numenta Anomaly Benchmark (NAB), in conjunction with the World Congress on Computational Intelligence: [**numenta.org/nab**](http://numenta.org/nab). There are two categories: anomaly detection algorithms evaluated on NAB, and real-world datasets with labeled anomalies. For the latter category, here are some ideas for submissions:

- [MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database](https://www.physionet.org/physiobank/database/mitdb/)
- Check out [this big list of cool data sources](http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/02/12/big-data-35-brilliant-and-free-data-sources-for-2016/#180dbd406796)
- There are labeled anomalies in [this data](http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/discords/). You may need to look at the [paper figures](http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/discords/HOT%20SAX%20%20long-ver.pdf).

Send your submissions in to [nab@numenta.org](http://nab@numenta.org) for cash prizes! 🤑

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**Author:** ![alavin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/alavin/32/144_2.png) [@alavin](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/alavin)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608/2 "2016-05-31T17:38:10Z")

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Here’s an idea for entering an algorithm: [“Online Algorithms For Parameter Mean And Variance Estimation In Dynamic Regression Models”](https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05697v1). The author said he’d be really interested to see someone implement the method specifically towards anomaly detection and run it on NAB.

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**Author:** ![alavin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/alavin/32/144_2.png) [@alavin](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/alavin)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608/3 "2016-06-07T19:51:57Z")

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For more datasets to contribute, check out table 6 of [this anomaly detection paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06602).

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**Author:** ![alavin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/alavin/32/144_2.png) [@alavin](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/alavin)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608/4 "2016-06-28T17:43:23Z")

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Last week for submissions to the [NAB competition](http://numenta.org/nab)! **Low hanging fruit** : [submit these labeled anomaly datasets](http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/discords/)!

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-for-the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark-competition/608/5 "2016-06-28T17:55:38Z")

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Boy, if I wasn’t ineligible for this contest, I would be [**$2,500 richer**](http://numenta.org/nab/#what-are-the-prizes) next week. 💰