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I think this contest is great.

It's neat to have access to data from a complete contest. You can figure out submission rate per person, look at a series of entries to watch algorithms evolve, differentiate between tweaks and algorithm improvements, and lots of other interesting things that I haven't thought of yet.

I'm excited to see what other metrics and trends are teased from the data. Hopefully some will be interesting and helpful enough to be included on the statistics page [1] of future contests!

Steve

[1]: Example stats: http://www.mathworks.com/contest/jumping/statistics.html