Coursolve: Free data analysis for your organization from students!

If you or an organization you're affiliated with could use free help in analyzing your datasets, be sure to sign up for Introduction to Data Science through the University of Washington. Nonprofits, social enterprises, research labs, and other organizations will have the opportunity to recruit students from around the world to address challenges in data analysis and visualization through a course project, potentially gaining key insights to drive future progress. Over 55,000 students are currently registered for the course, which will begin on May 1, 2013 and last for 8 weeks.

Course projects should fall into one of three categories:

• Prediction - Given a set of data, develop a method to predict how a future data point might behave. Some common examples of these are classification and regression analysis tasks. See more examples.
• Visualization - What does the data "look like"? Create an interactive web-based visualization designed to illustrate the relationships between a set of variables. E.g., Given sales data, illustrate the most profitable customer segments. See this neat example.
• Q&A - What can we find out from the data? Help answer 3-10 difficult, but unambiguous, questions. "How long do visitors typically spend on our website?"; "When we changed advertising campaigns last month, did donations go up or down?"; "What has been the social impact of service A on demographic X?"

For more information and guidelines, please visit: http://coursolve.org/courses/datascience/

Questions? Email hello@coursolve.org and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.