Our Final Kaggle Dataset Publishing Awards Winners’ Interviews (November 2017 and December 2017) | No Free Hunch

As we move into 2018, the monthly Datasets Publishing Awards has concluded. We're pleased to have recognized many publishers of high-quality, original, and impactful datasets. It was only a little over a year ago that we opened up our public Datasets platform to data enthusiasts all over the world to share their work. We've now reached almost 10,000 public datasets, making choosing winners each month a difficult task! These interviews feature the stories and backgrounds of the November and December winners of the prize. This month, we're pleased to highlight: 

• EEG data and code shared to combat the reproducibility crisis in neuroscience
• A handcrafted Russian version of the famous MNIST dataset for computer vision
• In-depth economic data about Darknet cocaine marketplaces
• Breast histopathology images shared to combine open-access biomedical data with crowdsourced analytics
• A wealth of weather data used to explore correlation patterns and demonstrate signal processing techniques
• Data and code uncovering the surprising everyday items sold on the dark web..."