William Cukierski

摘要

Big data was coming down the pipeline and many organizations were saying, "Oh, this data thing is going to be so big and so important. And we're collecting all this stuff and we're not using it." And then at the same time you had people who are really good at working with data, but they're all siloed away in their jobs. You know, "I'm an insurance person; I only work on insurance problems. I don't ever touch grocery store shopping data sets." So Kaggle recognized this and tried to matchmake, through competitions.