Google Acquires Data Science Startup Kaggle in a Boost to Data Play
Technology giant Google has announced the acquisition of Kaggle, a start-up that hosts a number of data scientists, for an undisclosed amount at the Cloud Next 2017 conference.
"Kaggle is going to maintain independent brand for a while... what Kaggle has contributed to the community is democratisation of data, developer community... partnership with Kaggle is going to be very positive for us," said Chief Scientist Google Cloud (artificial intelligence and machine learning) Fei Fei Li here.
Founded in 2010, Kaggle is home to the worlds largest community of data scientists and machine-learning enthusiasts.More than 8 lakh data experts use Kaggle to explore, analyse and understand the latest updates in machine learning and data analytics.
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