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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Oak Ridge National Laboratory is hosting a data<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/"><span style="color:#0563C1">analytics competition</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>comprised
of six categories based on data sets drawn from active research efforts at the lab and one category based on the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (<a href="https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge"><span style="color:#0563C1">CORD-19</span></a>).
Experts and students are called to participate and will compete in different categories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/challenges-2020/challenge-1-2020/" title="https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/challenges-2020/challenge-1-2020/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Neutron
Science data challenge</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>asks competitors to analyze data from the VULCAN diffractometer to gain insight in the changes in structure of a material as a function of temperature.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Registration</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is
open until June 22. Each downloadable data set is paired with challenge questions at multiple levels of difficulty, and most questions can be solved on a standard workstation. Student and expert entries will be evaluated separately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Join us for a kick-off webinar on Wednesday<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>May 20 at 1:00 p.m. EDT</b>. We will provide an overview of the seven data analytics challenges and take questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Join the meeting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">(you will need to download the WebEx Client from this link before you join)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Additional questions can be posted on our Reddit AMA May 20 9:00- 5:00<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/smcDataChallenge/comments/gi1xmf/smc_data_challenge_2020_ama_data_sponsors_for/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.reddit.com/r/smcDataChallenge/comments/gi1xmf/smc_data_challenge_2020_ama_data_sponsors_for/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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