Google is acquiring Kaggle, the largest community of data scientists - Technowize

"The top hacker news on Techcrunch states that Google is acquiring Kaggle, the world’s largest community of data scientists and developers. It is a platform that hosts machine learning contests, top datasets and other competitions to write and share code. The 7-year-old start-up is the top open data platform that helps the users to learn, work and play; bearing the seamless data.

Kaggle is a widespread community of about half a million data scientists. They compete with each other to solve complex data science problems with the use of varied applications for data learning. Data scientists and machine learning engineers altogether called ‘Kagglers’ demonstrate their skills to solve the toughest problems across many industries.

The San Francisco based start-up has made its way standing out consistently. The service got an early start despite having certain tough competitors like DrivenData, TopCoder and HackerRank.

Kaggle, the data science start-up was founded by Goldbloom and Ben Hamner in 2010. The details of take-over by Google are not yet officially announced. But knowing that Google is hosting Kaggle’s next Cloud Conference in San Francisco this week, we could expect the official announcement very soon."