Kaggle is a website to host coding competitions related to machine learning, big data, or otherwise all things data science.
Newly launched on Kaggle is a healthcare-related competition! A group of health institutions provided a large data set consisting of three patients’ interictal and preictal (up to 1 hour before) EEG tracings in raw data. The goal? Predict which “unknown” EEGs are preictal so healthcare providers can intervene.
Also, with the timely arrival of Internet of Things (IoT), wearable, and big data, can you imagine the impact of giving patients an accurate 5-minute warning every time a seizure is about to start? Continue reading