# Machine Learning Competitions

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/machine-learning-competitions/2101>\
**Category:** Machine Learning\
**Tags:** competitions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/machine-learning-competitions/2101 "2017-04-05T18:09:08Z")\
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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:** [April 5, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/machine-learning-competitions/2101/1 "2017-04-05T18:09:08Z")

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Following is a list of machine learning competitions and public data sets used for ML comparisons we might want to apply NuPIC towards.

- [Kaggle](http://www.kaggle.com/competitions)
- EUNITE
  - [past competition](http://neuron.tuke.sk/competition/index.php) and associated [mailing list thread](http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic_lists.numenta.org/2013-October/001483.html)
  - [future competition](http://neuron.tuke.sk/competition2/)

- [KDD Cup](http://www.kdd.org/kdd2013/call-for-cup)
- [Covertype](http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Covertype)
- [MNIST](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) (handwritten digits)
- [CIFAR](http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html) (image classification)

Some of these are not a good fit for NuPIC, but we should at least document why NuPIC is not applicable for them.