Chinese e-commerce giant taps region’s big data expertise in new competition

Alibaba in China is best known as an e-commerce platform for selling goods, but it has been working to develop its cloud infrastructure with the Meteorological Office in Exeter. "This competition will challenge the participants in a scenario with real-life factors to test both their technological capability and creative thinking"   The two are working together on a challenge for data scientists from around the world in a data-mining contest. You may like: Why Cray, the supercomputing expert, has set…