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The Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Challenge

Artificial Intelligence is transforming everyday life. It changes how you interact with your phone, your computer, your car, even your friends online. It can protect you from fraud or choose your next movie to watch. It can show you patterns you didn’t even know existed and transform gut instincts into consistent rules. It’s something you need to understand, and it can be a lot of fun.

We want you to take three simple scenarios and use the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools and techniques available to come up with some simple, innovative, maybe even surprising solutions to some familiar problems.

Don’t be scared! These problems may seem big, but there are surprisingly simple solutions and plenty of examples online that will get you there quickly.

Points are given for speed, accuracy and the use of technology. Use Azure AI, use Redis, or Python. Write it in Javscript to run in a browser. Whatever works for you. Be adventurous and spread your wings. 

Spam

The classic spam filter.

We’ll provide you with three sets of data: one contains spam, one contains ham (ham is not spam. Or the other way around?) and the third contains random test data. You build and train your system using the first two sets and then run it against the third set. Fight the spam and Save the World.

Your training and test data are here. The format is simple: A text file with 1 message per line, each line begins with "Spam" or "Ham" (ham is "not spam"), followed by a comma and then the message. The file is in 3 parts, each part labelled by a header starting with #. There's spam and ham messages for training, followed by a set of messages that are to be used for testing your code.

Train your model on the training data, then test on the test data. We may then send you some unlabelled test data so beware! Write up your methodology and code in a short article and report your results.

Your article should be posted in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning section.

Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate

detective

The language detector

We all love code but we all really love code that’s colourised. The only problem is your colouriser needs to know the language of the code before it can run.  We’ll provide you with a collection of labelled code snippets. The code snippets could be big or small, clear or ambiguous.

Your training and test data are here. The format is simple: A text file containing HTML, with the HTML comprising PRE blocks that contain a code sample. The language of the same is given by the lang attribute of the PRE tag. Train and test your model on the data provided then write up your methodology and code in a short article and report your results.

The goal is to make the code look good so as a hint you may not need to be 100% accurate. If it looks like JavaScript and smells like JavaScript then sometimes C++ will be OK. How picky you are is up to you.

Your article should be posted in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning section.

Difficulty: Intermediate

feather

Birds of a Feather stick together.

If you’re into a particular technology you’re likely to read, vote or download content surrounding that technology. By looking at patterns of behviour you can make an educated guess about what one person may like based on how similar or disimilar their actions are to others.

We’ve generated some user data that revolves around a set of articles. Each article has one or more tags, and over the course of 30 days users are reading, upvoting or downvoting articles as well as downloading files assoicated with the articles.

Your job is to decide how important each action is. Is an upvote more significant than a file download? Is a downvote important? What about the tags associated with each article? The viewing habits? How does it all fit together?

Build a model that can input this data and make a decision on whether a given user would .be interested in a given article, and that, given a user, can suggest articles most likely to be of interest.

Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced

Resources

There are hundreds of easy to read articles that provide basic examples of machine learning that you can adapt to these problems. Here are just a few:

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GeneralNow Microsoft Azure published resources submitted as a part of my two articles are back to work and became fully operational over again . Pin
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Generalhttps://user2item.azurewebsites.net/ and http://antispaminfo.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com/ are now available... Pin
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Generalhttp://antispaminfo.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com/ is now back to work from maintainance Pin
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