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Create your first competition
Organizing a challenge allows you to crowd-source the most difficult machine learning problems. It is also an excellent way to learn data science. This short hands-on tutorial will give you everything you need to create your first competition — as early as today!
Codalab is an open-source web platform hosting data science competitions. This means that you can set up your own instance of it, or use the main instance on codalab.lisn.fr. Codalab puts an emphasis on science and each year hundreds of challenges take place on it, pushing the limits in many areas: physics, medicine, computer vision, natural language processing or even machine learning itself. Its flexibility allows to solve a wide variety of tasks!
Once you have an account, you can already publish your first competition! The only limit is your imagination.
To create your first machine learning challenge, all you need to do is to upload a competition bundle. A competition bundle is a ZIP file containing all the pieces of your competition: the data, the documentation, the scoring program and the configuration settings.
Let’s start from an example; it’s the easiest way. Here is the competition bundle of the Iris Challenge, based on the famous Fisher’s dataset; simply click on that link: Iris Competition Bundle.
Now just upload the file named “iris_competition_bundle.zip” into Codalab as following: