I am sure most of you here are familiar with Kaggle and the contests they host. Though its a great platform for data scientists, I feel it limits the participants to be able to solve only prediction problems. Also, the budding young data scientists who are now venturing out to test waters never stand a chance to win, but no doubt, its a great learning curve. I stumbled upon a site, CrowdAnalytix.com, which is similar to Kaggle, but these guys host a wide variety of contests, from Research to Predictive Modeling to Visualization. I feel this gives an opportunity for young statisticians and data science students to participate and win good prize money as the contests are not long and very intense like Kaggle.