Data Challenges provide a mechanism to engage with a global community of researchers and data scientists and offer an opportunity to harness their expertise, insights, and potentially some “outside of the box” thinking and approaches.  We always strive to draw in expertise from across the scientific community – including outside of the Alzheimer’s and related dementias field, where our aim is to keep them involved in our mission and goals.  

Since the AD Workbench provides collaborative workspaces, we promote collaboration and open science with the challenges that we host – with the goal of addressing important questions, sharing the results and making the code, that was developed to glean the newly uncovered insights, available to the community. 

AD Data Initiaive coalition partners have been participating in Data Challenges and Hackatons since the program's inception. See some examples below: