Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have,… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does. — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments,… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us - who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
