"Machine Learning Approach" to Smartphone Data Garners $10,000 First Prize in
  The Michael J. Fox Foundation Parkinson's Data Challenge
From: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research - 04/24/2013

Researchers from LIONsolver, Inc. have won first prize in The Michael J. Fox
Foundation's $10,000 Parkinson's Data Challenge, a contest leveraging "the
wisdom of the crowd" to benefit people with Parkinson's disease (PD).

The contest received an enthusiastic response from the scientific community -
the winning entry was chosen following more than 630 downloads of the dataset
from teams in 21 countries.

The LIONsolver team's winning entry provided proof of concept for a "machine
learning approach" that could unveil clues to PD onset and progression
embedded in data collected on smartphones. LIONsolver's project proved the
feasibility and value of gathering mobile data for monitoring PD, while
laying the groundwork for further analysis of larger, and potentially more
powerful, datasets using LIONsolver's machine learning platform.

Read the entire press release at:
https://www.michaeljfox.org/foundation/publication-detail.html?id=473&category=7

Links:
Michael J. Fox Foundation Uses Smartphones in Parkinson's Research
http://www.eweek.com/mobile/michael-j.-fox-foundation-uses-smartphones-in-parkinsons-research/

"Machine Learning Approach" to Smartphone Data Garners $10,000 First Prize in
  The Michael J. Fox Foundation Parkinson's Data Challenge 
http://lionsolver.com/info/cases/parkinson_kaggle/