KDD Cup

The annual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery competition
SIGKDD（Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining）が毎年開催する競技会。

http://www.sigkdd.org/kddcup/index.php

過去のテーマ（marketingからbioinformaticsまでいろいろ。）

2009, fast scoring on large database to predict customer behaviour
2008, Breast cancer
2007, Consumer recommendations
2006, Pulmonary embolisms detection from image data
2005, Internet user search query categorization
2004, Particle physics; plus Protein homology prediction
2003, Network mining and usage log analysis
2002, BioMed document; plus Gene role classification
2001, Molecular bioactivity; plus Protein locale prediction.
2000, Online retailer website clickstream analysis
1999, Computer network intrusion detection
1998, Direct marketing for profit optimization
1997, Direct marketing for lift curve optimization