Big data's big prize

The fifth edition of a next-generation technology competition is underway, with students from both home and abroad itching for victory, Xing Wen reports.

For Wang Bixuan, a postgraduate student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the following five months would be intense and stirring as she itches to solve data analytics problems with her teammates at the fifth Big Data Competition co-hosted by the university and Baidu, the Chinese search engine.

This year, the annual contest is themed on "functional classification of urban areas based on satellite remote sensing images and user behaviors", and is open to applicants from universities, research institutes, enterprises and maker teams.