crowdAI/crowdai

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# crowdAI - The open platform for data science challenges

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## Introduction
crowdAI (www.crowdAI.org) is a not-for-profit platform for open data challenges.
It has two goals:
* to be the place for solving (big) data problems in open science through open challenges
* to be the place for learning about the techniques used to solve these problems.

Developed by scientists and engineers at [EPFL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9rale_de_Lausanne) in Switzerland, crowdAI is open to participants from anywhere in the world. The platform is also open to host challenges from anyone else, from big or small research groups in academia to well established company dealing with an interesting problem around open science and open data.   

Open data challenges on the web give everyone around the world a shot at tackling difficult data problems.   
By providing their solutions openly, participants can rapidly learn the latest powerful techniques from each other.   

# Contributing to CrowdAI

:+1::tada: First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! :tada::+1:
Did we you say you are Awesomeee ?

Our Contribution guidelines are available at [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

# Documentation

We are in the process of migrating our [documentation](doc/documentation.md) from the Wiki into this repository as markdown files.

## Contact
You can always reach out to us at [info@crowdai.org](mailto:info@crowdai.org)
and you are always welcome to join the CrowdAI Community banter on our Gitter channel at [https://gitter.im/crowdAI/Lobby](https://gitter.im/crowdAI/Lobby)